London to Moscow!!!

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June 10th 2005

Published: July 20th 2005

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Jo and Mark

G'DAY POSSUM!!

Possums at Mt. Gambier, first stop in South Australia. they are really tame here & are the fattest possums in Oz because of it! They're really cute though.

This part of the trip was a grueller! As the title suggests, it's the equivalent distance of travelling from London to Moscow.We drove anything from 200 to 700 kilometres per day, Bertie the vamper can held out great and we ended up doing the leg really quickly, sightseeing included, 4 days!
We stopped off at the Great Australian Bight and saw loads of Southern Right whales as they made their way up the coast to warmer waters.
To call South Australia vast/desolate was an understatement, particularly a stretch called "The Nullabor Plain", no trees, just scrubland an bushes galore here. The roads were like an obstacle course, for 7 hours a day we played "Dodge the Road Kill", you literally had to weave between the kangaroos run over by Road Trains ( Massive 2 to 3 carriage trucks that can measure up to 55 metres in length, obviously they can't stop on a dime!) One of the most upsetting things we saw on the way was a baby kangaroo, it's mother had presumably been ran over, it was standing at the side of the road, near to death,waiting for it's mother, a crow was pecking it's back but it still wouldn't