Distance travelled: 0 kms.
Cumulative distance: 8,631 kms.
Sponsored by: Rob Toshack.
No riding today, just a lot of housekeeping. I have just completed a load of washing at a local laundrette. They even have special machines for laundering your pets???
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| A pet washer and dryer. What will they think of next!! |
I have just checked my "Justgiving" donations page and it expired last September so for all you lucky readers of this Blog that would like to donate, I have reactivated it so you can donate now. The link to my Justgiving page is:
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/henriosieckmemorialforstevenwalter
Justgiving default the fee charged to 7.5% but you can reduce this to $1.
My target is $10,000 and so far I have collected $8,261. All donations go to the Steven Walter Children's Cancer Foundation. I cover all my expenses on this ride myself.
When you look at my Justgiving page it shows I have only collected $2,277. The rest of the $8,261 has been collected through a special bank account I set up. The Justgiving page is easier as you get a tax receipt automatically. Please include your name with your donation so I know who not to hassle???
After my excursion to the laundrette I headed to the "Shipwreck Museum". It was very interesting and included part of the stern of the Batavia that was wrecked on 6 June 1629 on The Houtman Abrolhos, a chain of islands and reefs of the Western Australia coast near Geraldton. The Dutch built a replica of the Batavia and I saw it at the Sydney Maritime Museum in 2000. It is now in Lelystad in the Netherlands. Interestingly most of the shipwrecks on the Western Australia coast were Dutch as the Dutch East India Company (VOC) used a route to Batavia (Jakarta) that ran up the Western Australia coast and sometimes because of inaccurate longitude calculations they got a bit too close.
We had a team photo in the lobby of the hotel this evening. I'm not sure how it will turn out as it was a bit chaotic.
Tomorrow we head for Margaret River. It is only a short run of about 270 kms so a number of riders are having their bikes serviced in the morning before they leave.
