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Cindy & Duncan Bennett Editors’ Report
Well, back in the chair after five weeks and 10,000km plus, riding every day through earth, wind, fire, and water. Although mainly on earth rather than through it (deep sand near Kings Canyon an exception) and we didn’t see much fire other than the Jetboil. We went back to places we hadn’t seen in over 30 years up in the NT, and saw places we had never been before to avoid the inevitable rain events that always seem to dog our travels. Normanton was our furthest north, the Olgas our furthest west, and Port Lincoln deserves a mention because even though it is north of our truly furthest south of Canberra it seems more south just because of the Great Whites. None sighted in Lake Burley Griffin, even with the Burley. On the Editorial front, we managed to finish off and issue the May Journal on the road via laptop and make a start on this June Journal. So we’ve proven up the technology and software upgrades, and now have a plan B in case of an editor’s desktop PC failure. The quality of motel Wifi in Australia would make it challenging to be truly mobile though; probably only two places we stayed could support sending a high def selfie out to the thousands of adoring fans. We are still “high-fiving” our luck/excellent planning skills on managing to avoid the SEQ rain event during our time away, and feel for the members who were stuck home only able to gaze at their beloved bikes. We did experience the effect of recent rains up north, in a couple of water crossings in the Gulf Country, North QLD (below is between Normanton and Burketown on the Savannah Way). Note that the editor taking photos was standing well back from the water’s edge - there were crocodiles sighted and little hope of rescue from by-standers if you dropped the bike on the slippery crossing.
