Day 28 - 26 June - Katherine to Pine Creek - 90 km

Up early and had breakfast.  Had a chat with Nikki who had got up to take a photo of us because we are very handsome or because she wants to put our photo in her updated book, or perhaps she just had nothing better to do.

First 30 minutes today were slow as we got out of Katherine, but after that we made good time with the wind behind us most of the time.  About the 40 km mark  someone shouted at me from the bush, and it turned out to be Boogy, a German cyclist from Frankfurt who is cycling from Darwin to Alice Springs.  Mind you he has also spent 10 month cycling in Indonesia and also Portugal on another trip so he is very experienced.  He had a BOB trailer and was carrying heaps of food.  Not the way I would travel.





He must have been in the bush for awhile, because he wanted to talk and talk about tyres, food, mosquitoes, you name it.

Good talking to him, but we eventually had to leave and cycled another 20 km where we stopped for lunch.  Then a quick 30 km to Pine Creek.  Nice little town, but not much here.  We are staying at the Lazy Lizard Caravan Park and looking forward to a restful afternoon.