Back down to Katherine today and the right hand turn on to the Victoria Hwy which will take me in to the west to my planned over night stop at Kununarra. Timber Creek was my first fuel, about 285k’s.
I was about 200k’s into it, cruising in perfect conditions, just doing my thing when out of no-where from the right came 2 Emu’s. They were big striding, big fluffy balls of idiot. They were running at a slight angle but it appeared that when they saw me, they straightened and came straight toward me.
I had no real time to react. We were on collision course. Many scenarios flashed through my mind as I tucked in and braced. I could see the lead emu’s face, smiling with it’s big eyes and long eyelashes. It was just there about to hit me. It crossed less than a metre in front and the other one the same distance behind. I’d gone right in between them.
I arrived at Timber Creek and sat for a while, thinking what could have been. It was a huge moment and it put me back into the now. I had probably become a bit complacent with how everything was going, so a bit of an epiphany moment.
I reached Kununarra and found the camp ground. Out came the tent for the first time. After a feed I was back to the tent where I lay on my self inflating mattress, which didn’t self inflate. I blew it up but in the night it went flat. All I could replace it with the next day was a normal lilo. Heavy and lots of puffing to blow it up.
That next night, the pub next to the camping ground had the NRL State of Origin advertised and were making a big deal out of it. Free BBQ and more. Rather than risk missing the game, I stayed that day in Kununarra. Go the Blues!
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