Australia by Bicycle - page 1
Forty days' bike tour across Australia, by Jan Boonstra.
Stuart Highway near Darwin
It's not so difficult to get lost in Australia, because only one long highway runs from Darwin to the south. I started my tour from Darwin, which has a tropical climate. I chose May because in Australia, May is autumn, with comfortable weather for biking. Darwin has a pleasant and busy centre with many shops. I spent the first morning making preparations for my tour. Leaving Darwin seemed like leaving civilization. I rode through a few suburbs, but soon the houses disappeared and only the bush provided scenery.
Quite remarkably, a bicycle track runs parallel along the road. No
bicycles, except mine. About 10 kilometres from Darwin, the bike path
ended. Bikes then share the road with cars, trucks and roadtrains.
Although civilization seemed to have been extinguished, the long, black
tarmac line continued on and on. Traffic on the road was not busy, but
the reverberations of car engines were always present, especially near Darwin.
On a camping place at the end of the first day
Interesting links referring to the region:
There is also a complete daily log of this tour, but only in Dutch.
