6 days on the road and we have crossed the nullabor above the Great Australian Bight (the big bay at the bottom of oz). We stopped on the top of Bunda cliffs one night as a free camp with great views of the cliffs. fantastic stars at night as we sat out under the milky way with barbecued chocolate bananas for supper. Got the telescope out and Maria asked if the red star on the horizon was Mars? "no dear, that's a road train heading west".
and then stopped at the whale watching station at the head of the bight to watch the southern right whales that come in to the bight may-september to calve and raise the young. The last few mothers and calves were still hanging around but are expected to head out to sea in the next couple of weeks, so we were lucky to catch them.
the nullabor was a bit of a non-event - everyone talks about it being a moonscape, but in reality its just a load of flat, low scrub and that part doesn't even last that long. Nullabor comes from the latin "nulles arbor" meaning "no trees" - i never thought the romans had made it this far south, but as Maria pointed out there are some very straight roads round here...
we're now just over half-way across the country, so having a couple of days on a camp site in port pirie on the eastern side of the bight to catch up on laundry, fine tuning the van setup, internet access (Malteser McFlurry is the cheapest way we've found to get onto wifi), etc, before heading inland to Broken Hill and across to the east coast
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