Day  27:                                Cairns (1m)

Staggering into our luxury apartment a little after 1am, the start of Day 27 was a little hazy. Not so, the headache we awoke to later that morning!

Going our separate ways for the morning, we went and bought kilos and kilos of food  (we use the term ‘food’ very loosely...muesli bars, weetbix and dehydrated meals) which we’ll need to carry with us for the next 11 days. Whilst there are a couple of roadhouses in the Cape, we figure it's safer if we set off with the majority of the food we’ll need in case we strike any emergencies. Packing our little trailers again might prove difficult however with all the items we’ve added!

At 1pm we met Rob and Wendy again for a short but enjoyable lunch, before heading off to The Bike Man to pick up the steeds.  As we’d been made aware earlier in the day, the bikes had arrived in Cairns in pretty ordinary condition and so we’ll be rolling out with new chains and cassettes, as well as Jon having a rebuilt back wheel (with stronger spokes we hope!!!). We can’t thank the team at The Bike Man enough for all their efforts, especially given the amount of work we left them with and the very little time they had to do it! Fingers crossed our bike problems will now be at an end.

Now its time to pack for the final phase of the journey...