Day 23 - 21062015 - Lenard River to Derby - 124 km

Headed off early as usual.  Tough dirt, but only for 10 km and we hit the bitumen.  Was flying along.

Then hit a 10 km section of dirt. Corrugations and sand. Yuk.

More bitumen then more dirt and then onto bitumen not for good.

Don't know what it is about Joe, but people keep stopping and offering water, drinks and food. I'm lucky if I get one a day.  What's going on?

Scenery pretty damn boring today too.

At about the 45 km Mark I stopped to help Tom who had broken a spring on his  tandem trailer.  He was the support person for 3 motorcyclists who had just done the Gibb River Road.  

He was going to get someone passing to get a message to his mates and to get some assistance.

We brainstormed solutions and then decided to strap the axle up and just run on the rear axle/tyres and drive slow since there was not much weight in the trailer. 

I left him to do all the hard work, but he caught up with us and it worked.  Slow trip, but at least it got him into Derby.

Slogged away for the rest of the distance.  Surface was good and sun was hot, but 30 km from Derby head wind picked up and just got stronger the closer I got to Derby.  

Eventually got there and headed straight for Woolies for a few Gatoraides.  Rode into town and went to the caravan park.

We are camped beside a couple of 70 year olds. Sandy and Jennifer who have just cycled from Kununurra to Derby on the Gibb River Road.  Incredible effort.

Met Helen and Subie who we had met on Day 16 when they had a flat tyre and no spare and had to be towed.  Arranged to meet them for dinner.

Good feed of pizza, wine and beer.