Darwin! (22nd June)

It has been a long day in the saddle to Darwin but we made it. 760kms on these bikes is a long time as Lee and Banger will probably agree from their Cairns to Mackay run.

There were a few dramas early in the morning leaving Roper Bar. I took a wrong turn and Scott didn't wait for Sam at the intersection so Sam took the correct path. After crossing the bar, a long slippery river crossing I waited for Sam with Scott. He didn't come and after a while I told Scott to wait whilst I went looking for him back at Roper Bar. He's not there! Has he run off the road somewhere? Have the local black fellas taken him?

I crossed the bar again and Scott noted a sign to the Stuart Highway back the other way. At that point I realised what had happened and and headed off to chase him down.

We found Sam about to head back from Mataranka, he was concerned about what had happened and had been riding like a crazy man thinking we were ahead of him somewhere, cranky that we hadn't waited somewhere for him.

On to Darwin! WE arrived after dark to find no accommodation as the V8 Supercars are in town! Luckily, the movie crew from Bowen had stuffed up a booking at the Golf Links Motel and we got a pretty crappy room for $190 a night, such a rip off, but no option, even the campsites in town were booked out.