Nearly there! Wd Tylenol help your paw, perhaps, for the last few hours?

Great cloudscape! The Cloud Appreciation Society wd like that one, I'm sure.

Hi John. Yes the hand is impressively swollen and coloured but thankfully didn’t inhibit me riding 125km today. We are now only 40km from Perth. I have heavy duty gloves, (they are actually weight lifting gloves), and the left glove is performing well as a binding/splint for the thumb.
I’ll try to get a medic to check the hand and ribs when I get to Perth. I suspect they will confirm it’s just a bad sprain and advise to keep it strapped.

Just about there, Graham. Any ice for your thumb? Wretched air horns don't help one bit... Take your time, and hope things hold for the remaining kms.

Cheers, John

Thanks Mike. I’m grateful I wasn’t more badly hurt and the incident happened so close to the end of the ride. There’s also plenty of services near by if I need them.
Slowly, slowly.

Sorry about your fall, Graham just as you are within sight of the end.

Mike

Fierce-looking creatures, Graham. They'd be right at home as stand-ins in Spielberg's film "The Duel".

Thanks Mike. Well spotted. It’s was a big day on the Great Eastern Highway.
From the east for the water would be a long haul.

Er, that would be the west!

Thanks Vince. It’s the first and only blue tree I’ve seen. I’ll keep an eye out for more now.

G'day Graham,

I assume this is part of the Blue Tree Project, to help raise awareness for mental health.

https://www.bluetreeproject.com.au/

Cheers
Vince

John the Eyre Highway surface has been remarkably good for the 1200km we rode it. Considering the hammering it takes from massive road trains there were very few potholes. The shoulders vary from great to non-existence.
Today we are expecting a bad road with sandy shoulders and mining trucks north from Norseman. Fingers crossed there will be less trucks working on a weekend.

The view reminds me of many roads I travelled in Central/Southern Africa, Graham. Road surface is in vastly better nick, tho'!

Love the landscape photos, Graham! The brief descriptions of the seabed geology are engaging, too. Should you ever visit Ottawa, I'll show you a plaque atop an escarpment about 25 kms from our house: it says that 12,000 years ago, this point was under a mile of ice, and 10,000 years ago, there were whales in the sea below.

Splendid sunset, Graham -- your camera app has a terrific supply of those! Worth the rain & wind that followed, for sure ;)