Stray Tag-a-long Tales: Renmark

Our last night in SA and here we are in lovely downtown Renmark. Another superb day at the office, weather wise, as a balmy 25C with slight easterly breeze. (I wish I had those 3/4 pants though).
The riders all made it into town about lunch time 12:30pm where a counter-meal was had by most or the bakery as the other option - both were very nice.
Riding today was not as pleasurable as the previous day as the rough road surface and slight head wind made it a bit tougher than usual. Then there was the traffic! We were lulled into a false sense of security when traveling on the north side of the Murray River from Morgan where there was little traffic to cause much concern. Then we heard the call on the radio "Car up" from Nick.
"No Nick, it is just a green sign with white writing on it" comes the response from both Tim (riding) and Darren (in the Pilot-guide car). Silence until 10 minutes later "Car up" says Frank!
"No Frank, same as Nick - it is a sign!" says Darren.
Next minute there was a car coming towards the riders and no-one made comment, all too afraid it was another 'moving' sign. (What they really were seeing were the cars coming in from a parallel road that we were shortly to join being the Sturt Highway - main road from Sydney to Adelaide and boy, was it busy)!
The 'shoulder' the riders had to ride on if not wanting to be mowed down by B-Doubles ("not allowed to have road trains on this road" as Paul was told in no uncertain terms by one Truckee), was treacherous with broken glass and rubble making life in the left awfully dangerous.

Thank you Nick Stray for our extra sign - arrived via Aust Post and pickup today.

Both Paul and Darren stayed as Pilot Guides in their respective vehicles trying to give some order to our 'circus' as Doc (Robin) likes to call it warning both riders and other vehicles with UHF radios of the riders ahead. Some were polite; some were not about our little band of cyclists. Such is life!
Paul and I picked up a banner from the Post Office today, that Nick Stray had made-up and sent to us. We are trying to keep a handle on the various groups as they split and a bit more sign coverage as "Caution Cyclists" when we head onto the Sturt Hwy again tomorrow and into Mildura.
Well it's time for some photo uploads from previous days so hope you enjoy.
Psst! I have heard on the grapevine we will have an extra 3 riders joining us for the rest of the journey. Jesse, Col and 'Lande's mates from Inverlock so no doubt this will add another dimension to our epic journey.
PS - 'Cowboy almost got KOed by a kangaroo today as it jumped right in front of him. As Robert likes to say "He nearly was kangarooed!"