Kununurra to Fitzroy Crossing – 657km

Dark ominous clouds presented themselves and gradually grew into a small shower for an hour of so after which another beautiful clear blue day was on offer.

The road ahead was long, straight and a little bumpy, I dialed in “comfort” mode on the BM and sat back to enjoy what was on offer.

This day was a warm up for the long day ahead. We have an 870 km day coming up soon. This is an endurance ride, not a site seeing tour and as such things are very business like. We get to bed early and get up early in  order to make the most mileage in the cool of the day, and certainly arrive well before dark.

Horses wandered aimlessly along the highway, seemingly careless that a motorcycle was careering down on then at high speed. Although gross weight of this vehicle and myself is around 500kg, I don’t think I would want to take on these ponies, giving way was the order of the day.

Baobab Trees and stark Mars – like terrain, red rocky outcrops were the order of the day.

I had a fuel stop at Halls Creek, which presented a small problem in that they only had standard unleaded fuel. My bike uses up around 30% more of this low octane stuff in this heat, which would have meant I would have struggled to make it  to Fitzroy crossing (a further 290km) on one tank, and there is nowhere else to refuel and I was well ahead of the support vehicles.

Fortunately the shop sold octane enhancer at $35, enough to treat 60 litres. With the enhanced fuel I was able to easily make it into Fitzroy Crossing with a 100km left in the tank, that stuff really works.

The temperature was still high running at 36  and very humid. As long as you move and the air is flowing it is very tolerable. Arriving at Fitzroy Crossing a dip in the pool provided tremendous relief.