Circumnavigation of Oz take 2

After doing a over five hundred kays of dead flat roads, including the ninety mile straight, the Madura Pass comes up as a bit of a surprise,
The Horrock's Pass between Port Augusta and Wilmington can catch you out, first 25kph corners in over 1500 km of straight road, many a bike and car have come to grief there.
 
Is the 2nd one heading to SA from Broken Hill? There from memory seems to be a tight pass-like road out there. Quite hilly as well.
 
Yep, we did it heading to The Alice a while back. I was surprised how far south you need to go to avoid The Simson Desert.
 
You could try turning right at Wilmington after going through Horrocks and head down through Melrose to the Clare Valley, guaranteed terrific roads. roads.
Is the 2nd one heading to SA from Broken Hill? There from memory seems to be a tight pass-like road out there. Quite hilly as well.
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Yeah, those hills are called the Flinders Ranges.
 
Too bad the Nullabor, Norseman to Ceduna is all paved now the dirt roads made for an interesting ride not much out there to relieve the boredom. I always looked forward to Horrocks pass then turning right for the wine country Clare and Barossa Valley not to mention the Adelaide Hills and over the mighty Murray. Happy travels.
 
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Denmark through to esperence is all broad acre farming land and mining, acres and acres of crops to the horizon. Heading to Norseman tonight, then out into the desert. Stayed in Ravensthorpe last night, pub was chockas with mine workers, biggest chicken parmi I've ever had. Big chickens in WA
 
Vince said:
Is the 2nd one heading to SA from Broken Hill? There from memory seems to be a tight pass-like road out there. Quite hilly as well.
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Thackaringa Range Vince. I do it almost every week, although, cranking over a 75tonne road train isn’t much fun.

A couple of million clean BMW adventure bikes were leaving Cobar this week. When I got to Wilcannia they were covered in red mud and getting fuel. I’d say they did the Louth road to Wilcannia
 
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Mining crank and flywheel outside the pub at Ravensthorpe. What happened to cause the chunk out of the flywheel????
 

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Goats are way smarter than kangaroos, never seen a goat roadkill.
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Pfft….. I got three in one hit a couple of weeks ago.

Tally:
Countless birds
6 goats
3 kangaroos
1 horse
1 sheep

Problem is, goats are pretty street smart, but are family oriented. If there are four on one side of the road, two on the other, and the four run away from the road when they see you coming the other two will head across the road towards the others, then ….. kaboomio.
 
Dan on the Guzzi short cut home from Perth, as he has a plane to catch to do a ride from Alaska to US. The 2 Paul's also short cut home to Adelaide due to a pacemaker issue, which is a bummer, would have been good to finish the ride with the other guys
 
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