Day 4 The sand at last

Having a couple of problems connecting to a reliable network from our luxury hotel in the middle of the desert. Hopefully will be able to post a bit more soon.

Had a quieter day today, the course was around the hotel with small dunes in the morning and an afternoon of big dunes. We headed to the start to get some documents and a lighter to Tamsin and got to takea bunch of pictures. The it was off to the re-fueling check point tto annoy the Rally Raid guys and watch a bit of mayhem in the dunes through binoculars. Jeff (tough as nails) Webster was with us again in the Brown Service truck, nursing his broken collar bone. Gordon seemsto have managed to break the electrics in his shiny new KTM and was running very late due to blown fuses. Stan the man was up there again with the first bikes in, Ant came in next followed by a dazed Stu who had managed to inspect the bars a bit too closely and had paid the price.

Everyone finished today though which was a relief, we heard word that Simon is still unconsciouse but stable in Spain so we hope all is going well there. His bike turned up today on the sweeper truck that had spent the night in the desert upside down, after righting it and pulling the top off the massive engine to get the oil out they made it back this afternoon with hardly a dent in it.

Tomorrow is the big day in the dunes that this rally is famous for, hopefully everyone will make it through with no problems. It's a big loop with upto 4 laps that only about 5% manage to do apparently. Sounds like fun...