After a very cold night, I started the "Ninety Mile Straight", the longest piece of straight road in Australia. And boy was it straight - it had two RFDS emergency runways it was so straight.

When you do these huge distances you start to go into a kind of daze and it was only when I saw a bunch of people crowded around a sign on the other side of the road followed by a bend, that I realised I'd come to the end of it.

Another 200 km on I'd come to the end of the Eyre Highway at Norseman. It was another 195 km to Kalgoorlie and I swithered about whether I'd continue, but the promise of a nice warm bed for the night in the youth hostle kept me going.

Turning onto the Coolgardie-Esperance Highway it was stunning riding. Tall groves of gum trees exuding gorgeous smells of eucalyptus. The railway followed the road and both overlooked huge salt lakes on either side. I eventually got to Kalgoorlie at 5pm, utterly exhausted. But I'd done it, I'd made it across the Nullarbor safely.