Judy & Brian Tour Oz

Nullarbor Roadhouse SA May 7, 2015 Last but one to leave the van park this morning and made the 380km trip over to the Nullarbor Roadhouse in fairly easy style, stopping only at Border Town for a rest and a coffee. We filled up at Nullarbor and had some lunch before deciding to stay rather than go any further, besides, we could then take our time going the 25 odd km side tripe to have another look at the Head of the Bight. Sadly we are still too early for the whales, just as well that Judy ‘captured’ one on the wall of the cafe before we went out. Certainly had the lady on the desk at the visitor centre going for a while! Whale. Nullarbor Roadhouse SA Kimba SA May 8 2015 From Nullarbor we kept travelling East toward Ceduna. At Ceduna we stopped at the west-east quarantine station, but we had eaten our fruit and cooked all or veggies this time, so we had nothing to offer. Leaving Ceduna we started looking for lunch, which we found by turning off the Eyre Highway, over the ...

Nullarbor Roadhouse SA April 8, 2015 The freight trains into Ceduna come in all night, we know, we could hear them rumbling by. Just as we left this morning, the road comes up to a railway crossing and there was another train, so as we had to stop, we snapped it as it trundled across with its two engines and 56 carriages of gypsum. Gypsum train. Ceduna SA Gypsum train. Ceduna SA Gypsum train. Ceduna SA After it passed we started out proper on the journey from Ceduna and across to ‘The Nullarbor’. Well there was a sign that declared it was, so it must be. It’s is certainly flat enough and barren enough, almost like being in the outback proper. Had to laugh though, there was another sign about 200k out from Ceduna, in the middle of nothing, exhorting us to take advantage of the Scaffolding Services that they have in the aforementioned town. 'Did you bring the scaffolding and planks, dear?' i asked.   We started hearing chat on the 2-way radio and so were no...