Blogs from Nullarbor Plain, South Australia, Australia, Oceania

Straight roads can be interesting........ Yalata is an Aboriginal Reserve and Lutheran Mission owned by the South Australian Government but controlled by the Lutheran Church of Australia. The Aboriginals of the Pintantjarra. We departed our overnight camp site at 0800hrs and a very cool 4 degrees Celsius, a short 5km drive to Yalata with the sun beginning to warm the earth With the large 80 meter cliffs running 200km on one side of the road and the small shrub bush plains as far as the eye can see on the other side of the road, the drive went quick. Lots of photo opportunities and amazing views of The Great at Australian Bight. 0940hrs we took in the views of the Great Australian Bight from the Centre of The Great Australian Bight. Amazing cliff escarpment with load ... read more

These past two days have been primarily travelling days. Rob has driven just under 1200 k's. So not a lot to report. We had to leave our beautiful Lucky Bay yesterday morning without getting a chance to fish because it rained pretty heavily. We will go back one day, thats for sure. Its a place that just resonates in your soul. The drive has been interesting. Though the Nullarbor is somewhat tedious its an ever changing landscape. We had a fair bit of rain yesterday but the road was dead straight though so wasn't so bad. We passed heaps of inland salt lakes and salmon gums (called that because of the colour of their trunks). Norseman is the first main town on the Eyre Highway as you head east. It was 'interesting' but not a lot ... read more

I left Adelaide and began the journey that would take me slightly north and then west across the bottom of Australia. It is a long way and I feared not for the car, but for my sanity. I had taken all of the correct precautions: I had made playlists of songs on my iPod, copied a multitude of books to my Kindle, made sure I had writing paper and pens, but I still didn't know how I would fare with several thousand kilometres of me and road. Would I meet others on the way? Would I begin to talk to myself (even more) and invent new personalities? Would I start referring to one of my possessions as Wilson? I did all of these things but the last, with mixed results, but it's fair to say looking ... read more

The routine continues, pack up, get in the car and drive, drive, drive. We sure are covering some kilometres this week! By mid afternoon we cross the magic line and are back on the home soil of South Australia. Goodbye WA, we sure have enjoyed our coastal tour and look forward to the next one already. We are getting closer but still have plenty more of the Nullarbor Plain to cover, so as the sun starts it decent we scope out for camp site on the cliffs of the Great Australian Bight. We speedily set up camp, light a campfire, eat dinner and then embark on a family uno challenge, signaling the end of another day and the last bush camp stay for the trip. We get up early, pack up and are on the road ... read more

On Fri 1st March we left Venus Bay and continued around the coast along Flinders Highway towards a place called Ceduna which marks the place where the Nullarbor starts. The Nullarbor is an infamous stretch of straight road from Ceduna in South Australia towards Perth in WA. It is nearly 2000km's long through a flat wilderness and crosses vast expanses of desert, bush and real dangerous terroritory including Aboriginal land where tourists and white people are not allowed to leave their vehicles. It means 'no trees' in Aborigini or Latin or something. Numerous people have gone missing in this area over the years. Statisitics show that 30,000 people a year go missing in Australia! It is a legendary stretch of road that most Aussies know about it but have never crossed it themselves. The night before ... read more