Today was Jon's day to mess up.  He missed the first gas stop and went to another stop further down the road.  Not finding the other three, Jon assumed that they had gassed, and headed to the next gas stop.  Meanwhile, Bob, Bill and Walter were waiting for Jon, and waiting, and waiting.  They finally  drove to a gas stop a few kilometers downs the road and found out that Jon had been there.  Everyone then met up at Balladonia, who's claim to fame is a section of a US space capsule on display in their "museum".  However, we do not think that any NASA space craft used pop-rivets to hold the capsule together.

The ride into Albany was a nice quick ride.  In Albany Bob and Walter  were hosted by PDG Ray Hurst and his wife Barbara.  Jon and Bill were hosted by Rotarian Trish Flowers at the Norfolk Sands  B&B which she owns.  The B&B is two blocks from the bay, with clean beaches and parks.  Bill took a late afternoon walk and Jon sat outside at the Bay Merchants for afternoon tea.  Bay Merchants is a deli and gift shop next to the B&B, also owned by Trish.

Meanwhile, while we were at Classic waiting for the bikes to be finished, Rotarian Leigh Smith appeared, and we all followed Leigh back to his house.  Walter made the comment that he wanted to go diving to look at whale sharks, a large fish that is neither a whale nor a shark.  Leigh picked up the phone, and within 15 minutes had arranged for a diving trip for Walter, on Friday, in Exmouth, about 1,270km (780mi) from Perth.  15 minutes later, Walter was pulling away from Leigh's house towards Exmouth, planning of arriving Thursday evening.

We pulled into our scheduled overnight stop of Carnarvon a little after 5:00pm.  Rotarian Russell  Aughey met us at the gas station (where else) and led us to his home.  Bob and Bill will be spending the night with Russell and Carol and Jon will be with Dennis and  Joy Wade.   Bob then pulled his bike into Russell's work barn (Carol raises horses) so we could look at the shock absorber  He found that a rubber bushing had failed.  While Bob and Jon were working on the side car Dennis came into the barn.  He took one look at the rubber bushing, and offered to machine a brass bushing. Two hours later Bob had his new bushing, and was hard at work putting the side car suspension back together.  Needles to say,  Bob's stress level was high this day.

Since the Rotary Club of Carnarvon meets on Monday, they held a special meeting for as at Russell and Carol's home.  The meal was potluck with excellent BBQ lamb.  Bob gave a presentation, and all of us had interesting discussions with members of the club and with their partners. And as we have found, even though we are talking with Rotarians from another country, in fact, from another continent, our Rotary activities and  Rotary concerns, are very similar.

Walter called this evening.  He made it up to Exmouth with out any problems.  However, due to the storm, the dive cruise was cancelled.  Walter's day was one of disappointment  So, with nothing to do in Exmouth, Walter headed up to Port Headland.

Ride from Carnarvon to Port Headland was our first real day in the desert.  A little warm, but not too hot.  We are now in a area where the only water is at gas stations, and they may be 100 to 200 kilometers apart.  The vegetation is now looking like desert, similar to the high desert in California or Nevada.  Not only did we see kangaroos, but also wild goats and free range domestic sheep and cattle.  We also saw a lot of road kill, mostly kangaroo.