20/09/2010 Day 20
Distance Travelled:
Money Spent: $5.50 for laundry and $8.00 for some groceries in the supermarket
Time cycling: 2 Hours 45 minutes
Total Distance Traveled: 1190km
My tent and tarp were not up to the job last night as again it was cold wet and windy. I tried keeping myself as dry as possible by surrounding myself with leftover plastic bags from touching the walls of my tent and even putting on my poncho; it worked for a while until a pool of water had gathered under my sleeping mat. But surprisingly, I slept quite well.
I woke to the sound of the construction workers digging a hole for a new building for the campground and I packed up my things and left by 8 saying goodbye to Jim. Hoping the weather would clear up today as I was told by a local, I cycled 20 miles into Gold beach where I saw Stan’s bike outside a cafe and joined him for a glass of water, he again bought me breakfast; a country style eggs Benedict with sausage cream sauce which was amazingly tasty and he shot off as he needed to be in San Francisco by Sunday.
I went to the Laundromat in town and washed and dried all I could, including throwing my tent and shoes in the dryer…. It worked well… at first anyway, my tent was fine but my shoes soles had expanded slightly making them a little bit uncomfortable.
Another cyclist came inside the Laundromat to meet me, an Aussie (Jeff), I’m surprised I haven’t bumped into him sooner as he was pretty much on the same route as I am.
As I was leaving the Landromat I ran into Jim again, we grabbed some food from the supermarket and had lunch in the parking lot, chatting for an hour or so.
He left and I headed to the Library where I spent a bit of time doing this blog when Chang, the Taiwanese guy I met a week or so ago shows up.
At around 6 I headed out of town having to tackle the steep part of a mountain to get to a lookout point as suggested by the cashier in the supermarket who had unbelievably florescent green eyes; the lookout point was Cape Sebastian, it was a tough cycle to get there but certainly worth it as the weather had FINALLY cleared up.
It was a great view from the top but some people there recommended taking the 20 hike down to the water for the sunset, it was about 2km down and I got some great shots with my piece of crap camera.
Hiking back up it was getting eerily dark as the mists were coming inland and I found a place to pitch my tent just off to the side of a trail next to a parking lot. I think the fine for camping in a state park is about $100 so let’s hope I don’t get caught.
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