We have crossed the Nullarbor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi Folks,

Another update

We are sorry we cannot post many photos. We are remote & there is no National Broadband Network so it is very ordinary upload speed and very time consuming. We have had a fantastic few days and ticked off an Aussie icon bucket list fixture…we have crossed the Nullarbor Plain.

It was sad to leave Streaky Bay as the weather had been great & it is such a lovely place not to mention our brilliant caravan park which had only been open since February. We made our way past Haslam & Smoky Bay to Ceduna. Ceduna is the largest town before commencing the Nullarbor Plain so we stocked up on food & fuel as well as visited the Visitor Information Centre. The Visitor Information Centre has a Nullarbor Map which proved invaluable & it was free! Ceduna has a lovely coastal outlook. Our first stop down the road was Penong for lunch. Penong is an Aboriginal word for waterhole & is known as the “Town of a Hundred Windmills”. It has a roadhouse and the last general store for a thousand kilometres.

We then travelled to Nundroo Roadhouse where we refuelled and learnt that Nullarbor Roadhouse would not have fuel for three days. Luckily, I have a long-range fuel tank & carry an extra 20 Litres of diesel. We found a great free camp beyond Yalata. We had to interrupt our journey to get a photo of one of the iconic Nullarbor road signs.

The next day we visited the Great Australian Bight. There is a cliff top boardwalk with viewing platforms & the Bunda Cliffs are amazing. These cliffs stretch over 200 kilometres & there are several coastal lookouts along the highway. It was very windy!!!!!!!

We had now reached the treeless plain or “nullus arbor”.

We travelled past Nullarbor where there were quite a few vehicles parked by the roadhouse awaiting fuel & onto Border Village. We took the obligatory photo of Rooey 11 & the international signpost before entering Quarantine at the SA/WA Border.

 About 10 minutes past Border Village is Eucla. We refuelled ($1.61 a litre) and visited the museum. Eucla was a telegraph station linking WA with the rest of the world and commenced operation in 1877. The sand dunes are now taking over the original building. There is also a memorial to Edward Eyre whom was the first white man to travel from Ceduna to Perth.

After leaving Eucla we travelled through Mundrabilla & onto Madura Pass before free camping about 40 kilometres from Cocklebiddy. The next day we went through Cocklebiddy & onto Caiguna before stopping & photographing the road sign that promotes Australia’s longest stretch of straight road. Both Cheryl & I drove part of the 90 miles straight!

We lunched near the Balladonia Roadhouse & visited the cultural heritage museum. We then travelled through the Fraser Range which has granite hills and the largest native Eucalyptus hardwood forest in the world. We overnighted at a great free camp in Norseman before heading to Kalgoorlie where we shall be for a few days.