I’m writing this entry, perched on the top of one
of the cliffs of the Great Australian Bight. I was hoping for a gorgeous
sunrise, but the weather closed in overnight and its all overcast. The views
are still amazing though! I woke up to the rain bucketing down last night. Its
so wonderful feeling all snug and warm in our home. I’m glad we ended up with Bertha though. Having a coach instead of a bus
means we are insulated a lot from the noise as well. There are a LOT of road
trains that pass in the night and they would be very annoying if we were living
in a camper or under canvas. In Bertha we can kind-of hear them. I went to bed
with the curtains open and watched them pass by. They each have so many various
coloured lights I call them horizontal moving Christmas trees!
We are
travelling the Nullabor in what must be slow motion when compared to everyone
else. It will end up taking us about 4 days to get across. We stopped the first
night at the Head of the Great Australian Bight. There’s a whale watching centre there which is open all year, even though the
whales are only there from May to September – Doh! We were a few weeks too
early… The centre is open until 4pm and we
got there just after 3.30 so we were worried we might have to rush. The couple
running it were so lovely and let us back in the next morning to take some more
photos in a better light. We repaid them with a couple of slices of freshly
baked banana cake, baked to use up all our South Australian fruit.
The
Nullabor is quite boring, but actually not as boring as we expected. We learnt today that it was named from the latin term Nullis Arbor - No Trees - but there are
actually a lot of trees, and the coast line is stunning!
We stayed
the second night just before the state border of South and Western Australia.
Dunc had always said he wanted to pull up just before the border and have a
beer overlooking the cliffs. Fortunately, we found the PERFECT free camp and he
was able to do just that.
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