Port Lincoln It’s funny you know. So many dots on a map, so many towns we’ve passed through. The longer we’ve been on the road, the less attractive they’ve become. We USED to do all the touristy stuff, but of late they’ve become mere filling stations, way points to roads and destinations less traveled. OurContinue reading “Spencer Gulf”
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Coffin Bay
We woke up the next morning clearly in between storm fronts The ever present wind a reminder that more bad weather was on the way, but at least the sun was out. We headed for Walkers Rocks Campground, five kilometres north of Elliston. We managed to snag a sheltered spot in the lee of theContinue reading “Coffin Bay”
Eyre Peninsula – The Boiling Sea
Whatever, we write, whatever we show of the Eyre Peninsula, this is winter now, our first in two years. I am sure that the summer sun shines on a completely different landscape, so don’t be dissuaded if the only ones we can show you frolicking on the beaches this time of year ARE the sealContinue reading “Eyre Peninsula – The Boiling Sea”
Eyre Peninsula -The Howling Winds
The weather forecast was not good. Winter storm fronts and low troughs have been chasing us across the Nullabor and are finally catching up. The further south we go, the more into the line of fire we wander. It is clear that we’ll be doing a lot more looking at, and a lot less divingContinue reading “Eyre Peninsula -The Howling Winds”
Ceduna
Vagabond: moving from place to place without a fixed home: wandering.: of, relating to,or characteristic of a wanderer.: leading an unsettled, irresponsible, or disreputable life. I don’t know why “vagabond’ came to mind. Perhaps another camp-fire just off the highway, perhaps the gradually losing track of time. Maybe just a state of mind. So IContinue reading “Ceduna”
The Nullabor Run 1 – Norseman to Eucla
The last thing I grabbed before we left Kalgoorlie was my Nullabor Links Golf Card, the only guaranteed diversion on our 1200 klm run to Ceduna in South Australia. The 18-hole par 73 golf course spans 1365 kilometres with one hole in each participating town or roadhouse along the Eyre Highway. The course starts atContinue reading “The Nullabor Run 1 – Norseman to Eucla”
The Nullabor Run 2 – The Bight
Eucla is exactly the point where that range of hills that had been tracking us since Madura, crosses the Eyre Highway and becomes the cliffs of the Great Australian Bight. From here on in, we were on the Nullabor Plains proper and the South Australian border only a few minutes away. Before we left, weContinue reading “The Nullabor Run 2 – The Bight”
The Nullabor Run 3 – Eucla to Penong
It was late afternoon when we pulled off the highway into a rough hewn roadside rest area within line of site of the famous Nullabor Roadhouse and, (of course), the Telstra tower. We’d just settled in when a white ute pulled up parallel to the van. Uh oh, we thought. However our fears were soonContinue reading “The Nullabor Run 3 – Eucla to Penong”
The Mullock Heap
You see the ridges of tailings looming on the horizon well before you reach Kalgoorlie. A small mountain range, plateaus created by the ceaseless backwards and forwards of dump trucks and dozers. We had no idea what to expect from Kalgoorlie but, as it turned out, a mining town is always a mining town, dirtContinue reading “The Mullock Heap”
Into the Desert
And so it was, we finally left the south-west coast and headed inland towards Kalgoorlie. We had 400klm to go and plenty of time to get there. We set our sights on Norseman, roughly half way. We had heard about a free RV park near the center of town and arrived just on lunchtime atContinue reading “Into the Desert”