Day 28 - Mackay to Sunshine Coast - 928km

After seeing the weather forecast for the coast predicting heavy rain for Friday afternoon and Saturday we decided that we would leave Mackay early and make a dash for home to beat the bad weather...after all it is only 900km down the road so shouldn't be a problem! On the run down through Marlborough to Rockhampton we made good time and even found a couple of straight stretches still.

Think I know which bike I would rather be travelling long distances on!

Stopped briefly in Rocky at the Tropic of Capricorn monument....it was less than two weeks ago we crossed it on the other side of the country heading north.

From Rockhampton to home the trip turned out to be almost the worst part of the whole journey..the road is lousy, there was lots of traffic and roadworks...which would be okay if they were doing something constructive but it seemed to be just a case of patching up a very pathetic road.

Home is starting to get very close...will we beat the weather?

Maybe the weather has gone away??

Very ordinary welcome sign to the Coast....

The weather is really starting to close in again but so far we are still dry....Luckily it held off as by now the rear tyre on the bike is totally shot and making for less than ideal handling in the dry so wet roads would not be fun.

The end of the trip...28 days and 18,055km since we started.

Made it.. the rain came down just as we pulled in the driveway at home, 11 hours after we left Mackay.

So that's it...we did it... we had the most amazing time and saw some incredible sights as we rode around Australia in 28 days ....

Coz We Can!!

Some statistics from the trip:

Distance by bike's odometer: 18,055km

Distance by Garmin GPS: 17,358km

Fuel used: 1,154 litres

Fuel consumption: 6.39 km/100l (using bike odometer)

Most expensive fuel: 218.7 cents per litre (On Nullabor)

Number of photos: 20,361

Number of beers: Not recorded!

Licence points lost: An amazing zero

Would we do it again?

Absolutely...In a heartbeat!