OKA196 goes renewable energy. :woohoo:

Over the last 3 months, for reasons which I won't elaborate, we have crossed the Nullarbor 3 times. Once E to W and twice W to E.
EVERY time we have done it, it has been with a tail wind.
On this last occasion, we topped up with fuel at Wiluna after coming down the Canning and headed south towards home in Adelaide, with a moderate tail/cross wind. We spent a couple of nights at Norseman before heading east with a strengthening tail wind that took us all the way to a favorite spot of ours at Mexican Hat, just west of Fowlers Bay where we camped up for 5 nights of fickle winds.
Back on the road, the strong tail wind was back for another day followed by light tail winds to Port Augusta.

Now, #196 is not renown for its great fuel consumption at its height, width and weight, but under these conditions and cruising at a conservative 75kph we managed 14.6L/100km for 1,300km from the main 190L tank and 13.3L/100km for 1,200km from the 160L rear tanks.
That is an average of 14L/100km for 2,500km.
We have had short stints at that sort of fuel economy before, but not over such distances.

We have now switched to using the 110L of jerry can reserves for the run south to Adelaide. And guess what? There will be a roaring northerly to take us home.
Cheers,
Peter