May 18th: Hayes Creek to Pine Creek – 57.6 km
Day 217
We hoped to find a bread this afternoon and were unable to due to the lack of grocery stores, and have have now added a new favourite to our list of cycling meals – peanut butter and jelly oatmeal. We’ll repeat the recipe later to make sure it wasn’t just the hunger that made it delicious.
Coming from Asia we didn’t really prepare for the wide open spaces by planning where and when we would buy food. Many of the stores at the RV parks we come across don’t carry groceries. When they do, it tends to be more expensive. We found food at the gas station in Pine creek and loaded up on beans, eggs, sausage and bread.
Looking for a cheap shower we rode out of town to a RV park called Pussy Cat Flats. For what you get it’s not really a great deal. A field to put your tent with a little shade and a shower is all you get for 14 AUD. We did have access to a fire pit and plenty of wood. Cher did the laundry while I made a fire. We quickly cooked and devoured a package of 8 sausages, on toasted bread topped with baked beans. It was a feast. This was the most meat either of us had eaten in one sitting in the last 7 months. We were both full and content, although after an hour our stomachs were a little uncertain if this was good or not. In the end we got to keep the sausage and we did our best to wait out the 35 degree heat of day before crawling into our tent.
