Day 7: Deniliquin to Boorowa
10 June 2014
Master Map
Of course it was bloody freezing again the next morning, although reasonably sunny and we set off for Boorowa — west and slightly north. Our first stop was Jerilderie, at which were back on the Newell Highway but further south than when we left. I mention it only because it was the scene of a very famous bank robbery by Ned Kelly, a nineteenth century bushranger who, despite being a tedious criminal, manages to remain a national icon of sorts. Actually, Ned was not without merit. He and his gang invented and constructed armour from sheet metal. It made them literally bullet proof, except for the minor consideration of not covering their legs. In what turned out to be the final shoot out, Police Sergeant Steele recognised the absence of leg protection and cooly shot Ned a couple of times in the legs.
When Pterodactyl and I arrived in Jerilderie it was overcast and cold and we had a welcome coffee and a hot meat pie.
The rest of the day was uneventful, although the road between Wagga Wagga (or Wagga bloody Wagga as it’s known) and Gundagai was great riding. After a stretch on the Hume Highway (the main road from Melbourne to Sydney) we turned off and the final kilometres to Boorowa also covered some good riding road.
I took not a single photograph.
