Very boring and tedious day today. My friend the head came back, but we still snuck in 135km's. We're staying at Minilya Roadhouse tonight in a nice little caravan park out the back..

Carnavon

We've reached Carnavon yesterday. Not much to talk about in between. Stayed at an average roadhouse Wednesday night, camped roadside Thursday night with about 20 grey nomads. The rim on the bike is starting to crack and split so we are halted in Carnavon for another couple of days. Luckily it's a beautiful place and we are starting to tread on tropical ground.

 

Wanted to share this amazing letter my son's best friend wrote to the footy show! Fingers crossed it gets read out on Sam's mailbag tomorrow night.

Dear Sam,

we are writing to you because we feel we need to share with you the story of a very great deed, being undertaken by an extraordinary individual, which is for a ve...ry noble cause indeed. Appropriately, it is an act that draws parallels with anther great man, a man with which you yourself know only too well, and who himself is on the cusp of performing ( not for the first time) a very extraordinary act for yet another noble cause.

The man i speak of who you yourself are lucky enough to call a friend, is the great Shane Crawford. His Tour de Crawf ride from Melbourne to Perth to raise money and awareness for breast cancer is yet another example of the class, character, and selflessness of this exceptional man. We applaud his sacrifice and his courage, as it is clearly a mammoth task of endurance, mental strength and will power that is well beyond your average man.

It is for all these reasons that we we feel compelled to share the tale of our great man with you and the rest of the footy show, and wider AFL community. Our great man is one Graeme Kenny. Graeme is currently undertaking a ride that has taken him from melbourne to perth, but which will also see him continuing riding from Perth to Broome, in northern Western Australia! A task requiring unfathomable mental and physical strength, made even more extraordinary by the fact graeme is not, or never was, an elite athlete. Graeme is a 60 year old father of three, who managers a bar at a prestigious melbourne golf club for a living. ( Also a long suffering Demons supporter )

Like the great crawf, Graeme's epic journey is also in support of a very great cause, a cause close to the hearts of many Australians, a cause with which yourself Fossil are only to familiar . The cause is Prostate cancer, more specifically, the E.J Whitten foundation. We felt the need to highlight Graeme's journey to you as we know the footy Show are fantastic at throwing their weight behind great causes. At a time when one of your own is going above and beyond the call of duty to support Breast Cancer research, we felt it a great opportunity to write to gain a little extra support for this equally great cause.

We by no means want to take anything away from Crawf and the cause he is supporting, we merely feel it is only fitting we attempt to gain Graeme a little exposure for the unbelievable thing he is doing. We don't ask much, we ask that you air this letter, or at least part of it, and display the link to graeme's page to aid his own fundraising effort. We would be extremely grateful if you could do this, as any extra funds gained for this great cause would be fantastic for everyone involved, and everyone touched by this terrible disease. Such a remarkable story deserves to be heard , and we hope and trust that you Sam, and the whole Footy show family recognise how truly amazing this man and his efforts are.

Thanks.

Sarah Kenny and Jonny Wooster

Overlander Roadhouse

Well it's a pleasure to finally be riding with some half decent tail winds, little bit up and down today, getting lots of toots and a couple donations from passers by due to the ABC radio interview. The ranger pulled up in front of us. Thought he might tell us to move on, but he just stopped to say g'day, donate ten bucks and wish us safe travels. We've reached Overlander Roadhouse today and should be in Carnavon by Friday.

Monday 17/6

Had quite an eventful day today, started off going to get a couple of tyres to put on the front end of the van. Ric McCabe was kind enough to give us the tyres half price. We then went to the guardian to do an interview and some snaps for the paper. Then we went to the ABC radio and had a pre-recorded interview for tomorrow's radio broadcast, topped off by some sandwiches, coffee and a melting moment. Graham the owner gave us the coffees and biscuit on the house. All these acts of generosity were set up by the lovely  Loretta Wright who runs the Oakabella Homestead where we are staying, big props to her.

 

 

Oakabella Homestead

We're 470km north of Perth staying at quite an interesting little homestead which is apparently the most haunted property in WA. The lady who runs the place, Loretta, is equally as interesting sitting with us while we eat our scones and drink our coffee which rival some of the best, telling us the history of the property and spooky stories of the spirit realm, which apparently there is some sort of gateway on the property, although we haven't encountered anything yet it does have the creepy first impression. We've had some tyre trouble which puts us here for three nights, going back to Geraldton to get a new one tomorrow. Met some lovely people here. Google 'Oakabella Homestead', it lives up to its name I think.

 

 

Northam

Friday 14/6
Tough day in the office today with head winds persisting. Very picturesque along the coast. Ended up in Northam, 135k day, beautiful camp by the sea.

 

Photos!