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Day 39 – Eighty Mile Beach

We woke this morning bright and early to the sound of the generators around us.  Quite glad to be moving this morning.  Not too far, only about 100m.  We’ll be closer to the loo’s and out of earshot of the gennies.

I poked my head out this morning and saw all our chairs wet.  I didn’t think we had rain last night though … the whole place was engulfed in complete pea soup fog.  A quick stroll down to the beach was a bit eerie and disorienting.  You only needed to walk about a minute down the beach to lose all frame of reference.  Luckily the fog was destined to burn off really fast.

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Day 38 – Eighty Mile Beach


Up at 6am again and packed and on the road by 8.  Starting to sound familiar?

Blake’s run of luck was continuing with him banging his head (really well) getting in and out of places three times.  He also managed to stub his toe … yep … THAT toe.

Today we had 550 kms to do to get us to Eighty Mile Beach.  The road was a little unknown, with some maps saying that sections were still unsealed.  It turned out to be bitumen all the way on spectacular and later, boring, road until the turn off to Eighty Mile Beach.

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