The Nullobar

Hi everyone, we are in Ceduna after 2 days travelling the Nullobar. We arrived at 1645, sorted the caravan out and went out to get fish and chips that Ceduna is famous for.....well they were not at all nice and have had far better in Carnarvon. Oh well will now have to do loads of walking tomorrow to account for that failure. We left Norseman on Monday morning and spent the first night in a freebie where we met some nice people and shared their campfire as boy was it cold. I cooked a nice dinner though and used my oven for the first time. The next morning we travelled along lookinf at what the Nullobar had to offer, we saw many signs that said look out for camels, kangaroos, and wombats of which we saw none. The countryside is fascinating though and not the desert I expected in fact it was quite green. There was 148km of treeless plane but I did spot some trees, some hills and lots of vegetation. The roads are not very wide and loads of road trains much to Daves annoyance because the rod on his mirror broke (which extends for viewing the caravan) so everytime a roadtrain passed he had to open the window and adjust the mirror. Our CB has been very handy and Dave is like a trukkie the way he speaks to the road trains but a bit more polite....no thats not fair the trukkies have been very good to us. Dave was looking forward to seeing Eucla as he thought it might be a little town as it is always mentioned on the weather but it is just a motel and roadhouse but does have a nice beer garden with a view of the sea. Oh and a small museum which depicts its early days as a telegraph station, police, ambulance, nurse and the dongas (small huts for my NZ friends) that they live in. We spent last night in another freebie which had no toilets (we do have ours in the caravan though) and we were the first in at 3.30pm because it was pouring wth rain, another 4 caravans eventually came in thankgoodness as we are not keen on spending the night as the only caravan. We never popped our head out of the door though, ate, had a read and went to bed. We woke at 3am so Dave made a coffee and we had another read and then back to sleep till 7.30am. It was fine when we left this morning but have had showers for most of the day, our big excitment for today was visiting the Head of the Bight and watching the whales, 3 of them in the sea. It is a really good setup, it is 12km off the road fine for caravans, and $12 each to get in. The walkways take you right down to the sea with beautiful views of the cliffs and the whales. Apparently there were 7 in yesterday including a calf but we were happy seeing 3. It has been interesting to spend time with Dave and we talked quite a bit about his engineering days which has given me a better undersatnding of why he is preoccupied with calculating fuel and feeling all around the gear stick, everyday he had to calculate the diesel, take readings on all the engines and feel for heat in the long propeller shafts of the ship. This knowledge will go a long way in trying to keep patient whilst all the tasks are done......but it does keep us safe so thanks Dave xx
Tomorrow we are going to look at the shops in Ceduna, food shop and catch up with washing and some housework which will take all of 30mins..... the housework. On Friday we will head to Port Augusta for the night and then head toward the NSW boarder.