We picked up our hire car at 8:30 and headed out to Cape Leveque. It's about 200km north of Broome. We hadn't heard of it before but the tourist centre reckons it's good.
We had to get a 4WD to get there and ended up with a Prado. Good car. The road to Cape Leveque was very, very sandy, very corrugated and narrow at times. Couldn't of done it in a conventional car, in fact we saw wrecks of normal cars along the road.
Long drive and slow going in the dirt, but there was along stretch of bitumen after about half way.Some good beaches and a few resorts up at Cape Leveque. We went to the Cygnet Bay Pearl Farm and had a look around. They had large, near round pearl for $25,000 that I was going to get Janelle, but I had left my wallet in the car.
Headed back and went to Broome Cycles to pick up some bikes boxes to pack the bikes in for the trip back to freezing Melbourne. Great service from Moe who told us about the Gibb Challenge, a bike race that covers the same route we have done, but without the panniers and with support. Soft. Mind you they do it in about 5 days.
Stacked the bike boxes in the room and chilled out for awhile.
Had a few phone calls from Prashed, Phil and Peter, but they were incoherent as usual, especially Peter who despite his advanced age, still hasn't learnt to hold his drink.
Joe and I cooked dinner and had a few beers.
Beer of choice at the moment James Squire Nine Tales.
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