193 km
The road between these two points is nearly all dirt…no surprise there, with patches of good quality tar road. Feels pretty awesome not to have yourself shaken silly on the short tar sections!!
The vegetation between this couple of hundred kilometers changes very often and dramatically. Just outside of Hann Crossing there are medium sized trees with what looks like an aloe type tree but with palm leaves…then that quickly changes to bare plains where all you see is termite mounds, then back to taller trees and larger vegetation , then plains again.
We refuelled at Musgrave Roadhouse, diesel costing $1.65 here.
We then hit the PDR- Peninsula Development Road. This is a dusty, yet wide dirt road that is the highway of the peninsula. It gets fairly corrugated and sandy in places.
There is loads of traffic on this road- 95% tourists towing vans, boats, camper trailers etc.
We stop in town to check out where we can do laundry and possibly have dinner- The Sexchange Hotel served both purposes. It was previously known as the Exchange Hotel…but someone (read tradies) added an “S” to the name and it stuck.
We are in Coen for 2 nights , not because there is so much to see really, but because we couldn’t get all 3 nights of camping booked at Chilli Beach. Thus we are slowing down a little, in a holding pattern.
