Nundroo, WA, Australia
It’ll be great to get home and see Scott & Emma again, it’s been a long three months! This alone isn’t enough to make heading East any fun at all.
We have a big day today, about 700k’s or thereabouts, so of course, we’ve had the customary “what time do you think we need to leave?” conversation, finally deciding on 7:15. We were up, packed and hitched on ready to leave a bit early so headed out of the park in Kalgoorlie just a tad after 7:00. Our first stop of the day was Norseman for a splash of fuel, our last “cheap” fuel for a while at $1.60, so we filled up the jerry cans as well, expecting the Nullabor fuel to be much more expensive.
Fraser Range Station was next on the itinerary where we caught up with Lyn & Merryn’s Aunt Beryl. Beryl has been holidaying in her motorhome in the South West of WA for a couple of months and wanted to travel home with us in convoy. It was great to catch up with Beryl who was perched on the side of the highway waiting for us when we pulled in. After a quick hello sitting in her motorhome, we hit the road again.
Now it really feels like we’re going home….Sad face again… 😦
Hmm, Emus as big as Camels?
Keep a lookout above Lyn.
Nothing on the runway?
Not too much to look at out here.
The beginning of the long bit.
Phoof, it’s still a long way.
Good God, look at the HUGE Wombats.
We made pretty good time today, the wind was kind to us and we pushed on past our planned stop at Cocklebiddy to Mundara, around 720kms. Good hot water here but the generator was extremely loud and ran all night of course. I’m not so sure any of us really got a good night sleep?
1st October.
Having voted on departure time (7:30), we were all up early to get the showering and breakfasting in. Today’s destination is the salubrious Nundroo, a distance of 600km’s with a number of stops planned to look at the cliffs and whales along the Bight. Fuel at Eucla and then the three newly fenced lookouts.
A bit hazy early in the morning (don’t worry, the photos will be fine) and the wind was howling a gale. This made the towing unpleasant (insert any other expletive as applicable) and expensive. I don’t think we’ll have done much better than 20lt/100km today. The cliffs along here, in fact, the entire coast, is magnificent and of course, we had to take photos looking East, West, up, down and everywhere else…
Great Australian Bight
Lookout No. 1
Step back, don’t go too close.
Yep, it’s all straight and uninteresting out here.
Parked at the Bight.
Coughlins and Aunt Beryl.
We lunched at the most easterly lookout with views over the ocean, watching the waves crash against the base of the cliffs before making our move to “The Head of the Bight”. Here we paid $7 each to look at the coastline (go figure?) and the sign at the visitor centre said “No Whales”. Lyn and I hadn’t realised there were supposed to be whales so weren’t disappointed. We were however quite pleased to find there were Southern Right Whales still swimming about, quite close to the shore. It would have been a great spot to sit and watch them for a long while had it not been so windy and cold (I’m going to have to put my shorts away and find some jeans again.. sad face 😦 )
Magnificent cliffs
Bruce looking disinterested.
How could you be?
LYN!. Step away from the cliff.
The “Cunnington Girls”
See any whales?
Everybody’s looking
Quick, there’s one.
Almost our last tourist attraction?
Topping up with our last bit of “cheap fuel”, we’ve already paid $1.99 on the Nullabor, we took off for today’s final stint to Nundroo. Hmmm, $20 a night for a powered site and the toilets might back up, said the attendant. Not my idea of good value for money so as I write this we’re comfortably perched in a free camp spot 10km east of Nundroo. Our toilet won’t back up and we’ve saved the $20.
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