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 Day 21 of the Around Australia Ride was another designated rest day, this time to be spent in Margaret River. I opted to take a winery tour on that day and had originally planned to spend the morning getting an update done and would explore the town later. Continue reading the full Day 21 Rest Day Margaret River post.   The stint from Scarborough to Margaret River was the shortest day of the Around Australia Ride at 290kms. But despite leaving Scarborough at 9:00am I didn’t pull into Margaret River until 5:30pm that night. So what did I get up to on this shortest of days? Continue reading the full Day 20 Scarborough to Margaret River post.  Day 19 of the Around Australia Ride was a rest day in the suburb of Scarborough, Perth. This was also intended to be a bit of a service stop for riders as we would have been on the road some 8-9,000kms by this stage. I decided I would only get a tyre change and had this completed the day before so I could spend the entire day just relaxing. Continue reading the full Day 19 Rest day in Scarborough post.  A scenic drive that wasn’t scenic, The Pinnacles, a lousy motorcycle dealership and would you believe it, another sunset. Continue reading the full Day 18 Geraldton to Scarborough post.  Well here we are, about as close to the halfway point in actual days that you will get for the Around Australia Ride. And what a journey it has been of over 8,000kms to get this far. To date we have seen weather extremes of hot and cold, dry and wet. We have had beautiful scenery and boring highways. We have seen big trucks and bigger trucks and have jousted against the wide loads. Continue reading the full Day 17 Carnarvon to Geraldton post.  This is it, the big one, the largest day of the Around Australia Ride with the Steven Walter Foundation. 870 kilometres – a big day in what, we are told, will be big heat. Continue reading the full Day 16 Port Hedland to Carnarvon post.  Day 15 of the Around Australia Ride, it’s funny how the scenery changes from day to day. Before reaching Broome it was a mix of not too bad, to boring. From Broome to Port Hedland, however, it was mostly a mix of boring and boring. After a nice relaxing break we had 613km to push through to meet the predominantly mining town of Port Hedland. As a result there wasn’t so much scenery to capture as there were things that travelled along the road itself. Continue reading the full Day 15 Broome to Port Hedland post.  So we have reached Broome and now it was time to have a break. And a forced break is just about what it was. We got to Broome on Friday afternoon, Saturday saw shops shutting up at 12 and Sunday the town was practically empty. I’ve mentioned it before but we got here in the low season so a lot of the normal activities and tours are suspended. The most notable thing for me in Broome was the final night when a number of us went down to Cable Beach with our motorcycles to watch the sunset. It is the done thing with the beach thickly covered in 4WDs and tourists being led on the back of camels – all waiting for the burning sun to kiss the sea. Continue reading the full Days 13 and 14 Rest Days in Broome post.  Fitzroy Crossing to Broome was a short day of 400kms and by now I was genuinely ready to just blaze through to Broome and get off the bike for a few days. We were mustered out the front of the Fitzroy River Lodge (another generous title methinks) for another videoed group start and were soon on the way. It was a slow ride up the road in formation past the camera and then we were left to our own devices for the open road. We all had Tony Roberts in our thoughts as we passed a sign for Fitzroy Hospital. Continue reading the full Day 12 Fitzroy Crossing to Broome post.  Day 11 of the Around Australia Ride took us from Kununurra to Fitzroy Crossing. Another large day of 650kms and after the previous day I was keen to just burn straight through to Fitzroy Crossing as quick as I could. Thankfully this was not to be. Continue reading the full Day 11 Kununurra to Fitzroy Crossing post. |  You can donate to the Steven Walter Foundation at the following link. | |||||
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