Saturday August 12 Route Map
Finally heading back south again now, it was a very pleasant ride following an old railway line for 40km, then through the Theodore irrigation farming district, and then harder going up a long valley into Cracow. I left at 7.30 and arrived at 12.30: that was 101km with 4h15m saddle time (23.8km/h average), which aint half bad. The bike seems easier to handle now that I jettisoned that 10kg back in Moura yesterday.
I camped in the town park right opposite the Cracow pub. I just can’t seem to stay away from that place – I’ve visited exactly every 15 years three times now – the first time in 1987, when I camped behind a derelict house with my kids; the second time in 2002 with Kathleen when we stayed in the pub and now again in 2017 when I camped in the town park. It was a ghost town way back in 1987 and is still one today – the recent revival of the gold mine on the outskirts of town hasn’t meant revival for the town itself, as the mining company built their own self-contained fly-in fly-out barracks barely 2 km up the road. Seems a waste of a perfectly good town, doesn’t it?
Scenes on the way to Cracow
Cracow – still a ghost town