Overnight we had a terrific thunderstorm. My whole tent was lit up by the lightening and there was torrential rain for a couple of hours. When I got up I found my electrical plug board sitting in a small pool of water. I carefully moved it away from the water and mopped up a couple of cups of water. The evening before I had not closed the awning of the tent and water had collected on it, run to its edge and splashed on the power cable where it enters the inner tent and trickled inside. Every thing else inside was completely dry.
Some other campers had had their tents flooded and the main grassed area was under a couple of inches of water. The camp kitchen was relatively dry and I had my breakfast there. My folding canvas chair had been outside all night and had 50mm of water in the seat.
The rides got off as scheduled at 930am in a light drizzle of rain. We were all wearing our rain gear actually looked very colourful riding down the road. We had a period of very heavy rain we we all got soaking feet but actually stopped for a while. We had 2Km of mucky dirt road which made our wet feet and bikes muddy. We stopped back at Mudgee for a coffee and snack before returning to camp for a hot shower and change of clothes.
After lunch I updated my blog for Thursday and hung around with the other riders before we had more talks about touring France. Cuba and the UK. The lady riding around Cuba said that it is very safe place to ride and its only drawback was its awful wine. During the talks were had another heavy storm and I had to wait for some time before i could get back to my tent and retrieve my makings for diner and the bottle of South Australian red to go with them.
I cooked a T-bone steak and had it with salad in the camp kitchen where I chatted with other riders until 10.00pm. I still had some red wine left but was too tired to drink it.
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