Day 13 - 29 May - Bramwell Junction to 6 km north of Bertie Creek - 54 km

Up early, collected our sandwiches and were on our way by 8.30 am along with a motro cycle group that were doing it.  I lined up with them at the start, but they took off and left me for dust.  pity I didn't get a picture.








Day 1 of the Old Telegraph Track was eventful. Only 4 km from the start we had to cross Palm Creek. The banks were quite steep so we had to take the pannier bags off the bikes and carry everything across separately.













We couldn't go down the main route so went down this track.  Quite steep.  Had to carry the pannier bags down, and then we had both of us bringing the bikes down.















Looks like we are not the first cyclists through here. Hope we have better luck.

This was repeated at Dulhunty River and Bertie Creek, both beautiful spots.

This was fairly deep so we had to carry our panniers across and then bring the bikes across separately.

We had lunch at Bertie Creek having covered 37 km. The biggest delay was sand followed by red gravel, both were unrideable so we spent a lot of time walking and pushing the bikes.

We were aiming for Gunshot Creek but somehow took a wrong turn and didn't realise our mistake until 4.30 pm. We were forced to backtrack until 6.00 pm when we stopped near a little creek just on dusk.

Joe lit a fire and cooked dinner, tomato Cup-a-soup Continental Savoury Rice with tinned Corn Beef. Sounds disgusting but was just what we needed. A cup of tea, clean teeth and into bed under a star-strewn sky. It started raining about 10.00  pm and contiued most of the night.