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”
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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”
As Russell Coight Would Say…..
Well, it’s been an eventful three months going nowhere fast. The trials and tribulations confessed in our last post were only some of the ingredients of the cornucopia of emotional up’s and downs. Two weddings and a funeral, grief, joy, mishaps, missteps and medical attention. Yet as housebound as we have been, had it notContinue reading “As Russell Coight Would Say…..”
Bump and Grind
You know that inner voice? The one that says “Geez mate, the steels showin’ . Better change that tyre right away!” And then there’s that other voice, the one that dares you. “She’ll be right till you get to Alice Springs….trust me, I know theses things.” Usually, when that voice says “I know these things”,Continue reading “Bump and Grind”
White Man Down a Hole
More bleak landscape greeted us on our road to Coober Pedy. We passed a sign that said Welcome to the Outback, but I swear it could have been a couple of hundred clicks earlier and not look out of place.. It was white line fever after a couple of hours as this video clearly shows…Continue reading “White Man Down a Hole”
Lake Hart
What better way to celebrate life back on the road than spending a lazy Sunday morning with tea, toast and Insiders. With only 170 klm on the agenda today we mozied through our pack up and headed into town for fuel. The truck stop option appeals because they have showers and bathrooms. Now to me,Continue reading “Lake Hart”