We were quite excited about travelling the Nullarbor. Loads of road trains carrying anything from fuel to train engines. We had to move off the road a few times. With a tail wind behind us, the land was straight and flat as far as the eye could see. Our first stop was the Head of the Bight. It was a spectacular view.
Our first night on the Nullarbor. Nullarbor meaning treeless plain. Don’t go to close to the edge!
1/04/12 Today we did the most klms ever. We left SA and entered our next state of Western Australia. The fuel was $1.99. The road kill was plentiful. We drove pass a fresh kangaroo with crows feeding off it & as we were almost level, a Wedge tail Eagle spread his wings & caught our wind as we passed him. He would have been a metre tall. There were some new species of trees too. Panties Tree, Bra Tree and the old Boot Tree just to make the drive a little less boring. We were happy & had lunch at a blow hole which blows cold wind , it was pretty amazing to see.
We still had 200klms to go till we stopped for the night. It was getting very boring by this stage & we were over the drive! We stopped at Balladonia(which is just a roadhouse) and asked about a short cut down to Esperance which would cut over 170kms off our drive, but it wasn’t possible. We were spewing, knowing we had to drive another 400klms tomorrow.
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