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Day 284, Wednesday, 28.10.2009

  The night was still quite windy with strong easterlies, but it was not as cold any more. After breakfast, we decided to drive down to the beach, back to the start of the cliffs, to find another camp spot in the dunes, the very last one, with access from the beach only.   Greg […]
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Day 283, Tuesday, 27.10.2009

  I started typing updates early this morning, and to download and edit pictures of the last days. Quite some work again…   Later, we kept on driving slowly back towards the start of the cliffs, which included at the end the climb down for he van on the conveyor belt over the steep edge […]
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Day 282, Monday, 26.10.2009

  I got up early this morning to check again the surf situation down in the cove on lower wind than yesterday late afternoon. It was not much difference, just the surf seemed to be a bit lower. Still landing looked ok from the cliff top.   I got the crazy idea this Monday morning […]
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Day 281, Sunday, 25.10.2009

Two epic rockets flying over Toolina Cove/ Baxter Cliffs…   We drove back to the Cocklebiddy Roadhouse to ask for the track conditions from here down to Twilight Cove, but as expected they told us you could drive that track only with a big 4-wheel truck with lots of clearance. And even those ones get stuck occasionally… […]
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Day 280, Saturday, 24.10.2009

  We were driving about 3 km on the beach behind track, before we had to climb up the Wylie Scarp to reach the plains on top which lead to the Eyre highway.   To prevent cars getting bogged here on the steep up hill of the scarp, the sand is covered with two conveyor […]
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Day 279, Friday, 23.10.2009

the Bilbunya Dunes in the distance Time to go for the last bit of beach before the cliffs! The wind was supposed to be 10-15kn headwinds in the morning, and to freshen up during the day to 20 kn. So it would be ok-ish in the morning, and quite some plugging towards the end of […]
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Day 278, Thursday, 22.10.2009

All night, even in the sheltered bush camp the wind was howling from the east around our van. It was nice to sleep in! I decided to give the last 55 km leg towards the start of the cliffs a go on Friday in the same way I came up to Wattle Camp, despite ugly […]
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Day 277, Wednesday, 21.10.2009

  The forecast for today was easterlies, but it was not really clear if they would be pushing or breaking down my speed once I rounded the corner to the north-north-east. Seas were calm on the southern corner with plenty of seaweed on the beaches, and I was hoping to find the same on the […]
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Day 276, Tuesday, 20.10.2009

Greg found that beautiful snake on his drive today     Another long paddling day was planned, around Cape Pasley, Point Malcolm and Point Dempster into Israelite Bay.   Conditions were perfect again, and I was heading due east across the Sandy Bight  to the high rounded elevation of Mount Pasley. To the left a […]
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Day 275, Monday, 19.10.2009

    I was tempted to haul over the sandy spit which connected Hammerhead Head with the mainland, but checking it out and doing it may have taken as long as just to paddle around it.   I was heading in a straight line offshore, passing the Twin Peak Islands close on my right. There […]
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