Riding before dawn to beat the heat we had a great ride to Larrimah, complete with another tailwind!! Andrew did 50 miles in just under 3 hours, and on a loaded touring bike as well. He arrived in Larrimah around 10.30am, and I leasurely rolled in about 12.30pm... nothing to prove on my end!
The Larrimah Hotel is a really exotic place, and really fitting in the outback. It's almost straight out of a movie set, with its pink concrete walls, tin roof, and cages of exotic birds and snakes... including a Death Adder. As with most historic hotels the rooms are smaller than what we're used to today, and theres a communal toilet. In addition to this our ceiling fan wobbled so much that we were genuinely concerned that it'd come loose flying in our direction!
One of the glass leuvered windows in our room had no screen, and seemed to be the source of the occassional mosquito... Andrew became obsessed with the mosquitos, and was performing acrobatics to swat them with anything at hand! It was hilarious!!
We had a great (and I do mean GREAT) meal and a couple drinks with a few of the colorful locals and really drank in the atmosphere. Amazingly the mosquitos seemed to give up after dark, and we did manage to sleep soundly!
The Larrimah Hotel is a really exotic place, and really fitting in the outback. It's almost straight out of a movie set, with its pink concrete walls, tin roof, and cages of exotic birds and snakes... including a Death Adder. As with most historic hotels the rooms are smaller than what we're used to today, and theres a communal toilet. In addition to this our ceiling fan wobbled so much that we were genuinely concerned that it'd come loose flying in our direction!
One of the glass leuvered windows in our room had no screen, and seemed to be the source of the occassional mosquito... Andrew became obsessed with the mosquitos, and was performing acrobatics to swat them with anything at hand! It was hilarious!!
We had a great (and I do mean GREAT) meal and a couple drinks with a few of the colorful locals and really drank in the atmosphere. Amazingly the mosquitos seemed to give up after dark, and we did manage to sleep soundly!
