A day of extremes..

You will have to excuse the formatting. I have finally found something worse than Trak.


I Left Cooper pedy at about 8:15 and immediately encountered a 35 knot head wind. What should have taken 1.5hrs to Cooper Pedy become almost a 3 hour trip of dodging massive thunderstorms. Five minutes from Cooper Pedy the winds almost dropped to nothing.

I thought that I had left the worst of the weather behind me but again encountered another head wind about 50 miles north of Cooper pedy and what I thought should have been enough fuel to make it to Napperby (based on the BOM forecasts etc) was soon eaten up by a 40 mile detour to get around a massive rain storm that also kicked up stronger headwind again. The weather become absolutely perfect as soon as I crossed the border into the NT.

I had put Eldunda down as a quick break but found the runway to be completely unusable so I took the next best option knowing that I was starting to get low on fuel and used the best and safest option. Many happy shots were taken. :) I am not the only one to have ever done it but the tourists thought it was great entertainment. The local cop reacons I owe him a couple of beers as road tax.

I plan to leave here at about 7:30 in the morning and should be getting into Napperby as everyone enjoys that wonderful Monday morning coffee. International Roast just doesn't cut it.