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spalding to bundaleer forest

Posted on Wednesday, May 19, 2010 at 12:46 PM by dyon

we discovered a flat tyre on the trailer upon arriving at spalding the previous night but had not bothered to fix it. this proved costly as it took ages to fix it in the morning. by the time we got going it was 10am and helen had heard about a playgroup in town so she took kai there for some interaction with people his own size.

we finally got on the road at 11.30 and rode a very frustrating 10km along the bundaleer channel. the channel (used?) to be used to irrigate the area and therefore followed the contour which was nice. unfortunately the service road that the mawson trail followed along the top was overgrown with thorns and interspersed with closed gates that had to opened and shut every few 100m.

once we got past the channels there was a lot more barren farmland before we made it up a climb to curnow's hut in the bundaleer forest. unfortunately you have to pay for this hut and while we'd called the forest office the day before we hadn't been able to get in contact with them. we had hoped to just get some water from the tank at the hut and camp the night nearby but when faced with a locked gate we couldn't be bothered lifting our gear over to check the tank. so we upped the pace and sprinted a further 5km to the picnic area where we found some water. we cooked dinner at dusk and pitched the tent in the dark despite the no-camping signs.

Edited on: Saturday, May 22, 2010 10:15 PM

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