Day 11

We broke camp and had breackfast. Both feeling a little tired, I made the coffee extra strong, this certainly had an effect on Amelia who pre coffee was struggling with her tent and post coffee was all "come on lets get going..." even before I had a chance to put the coffee away.

Cape Leeuwin Light House

First stop was the Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse.  It was a lovely ride down to it the roads all curvy and the temperature just right and when we got down the the cape some of the views was spectacular.  The light itself is pretty amazing, it's still operational and they need to keep the lens rotating during the day to stop it from overheating in the sun and cracking.  We had a nice second breakfast at the cafe at the light house and really enjoyed the views.

The guide at the light was really interesting, he said that the wall of the light house at the base are two meters thick so that it can with stand the 160km/h winds that there get.  He also said that it's the tallest mainland light house in Australia and that it was only converted from kerosene to electricity in the late 80's.

Below is a video of the Cape Leeuwin Light house lens rotating

View of coast from the top of the light house

 

Next we were back on the road for some lovely riding through forests and national parks in the south west.  We chouse to take some short cuts through some of the some of the forrests on roads that were not quite what the guzzi was made for.  It seemed to hand the roughness ok and was sort of stable on the loose gravel.  Lunch time inspection for bit which had fallen off showed that the bike had held together ok over the corrugated roads and nothing seemed to have shaken loose.

Nice riding through the forrest of the South West

 

Later on when we were coming out of the forest we noticed at huge pall of smoke, we're hoping it was only controlled burning off and not a bush fire.

With it getting late we pulled into Denmark, both of us feeling pretty exhausted from a great days riding.  We bumbled around looking for somewhere to stay and have dinner and eventually found a nice caravan park cabin by the water.  (we needed a cabin because we needed to recharge a whole bunch of electrical things.

On the way we must have ridden through a bunch of bugs.