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Travelling the Nullabor Jul 9, 2009

We left Kalgoorlie two days ago, and due to no mobile phone coverage we were unable to connect our laptop and report our travels yesterday.

Our trip form Kalgoorlie commenced with a look at the small town of Kambalda, which is a small mining town south of Kalgoorlie. It didn't really go well with gold, but has done well with nickle, and the town has been going since the 1960's. It had a lookout, which we went up to and took photos of the views overlooking some salt lakes and the town itself.

After we left Kambalda, then we drove down to Norseman before commencing our trip across the Nullabor. We fuelled up both the car and ourselves with some lunch. The cost of diesel - $1.29.9 per litre.

The journey of the Nullabor measures from Norseman to Ceduna is: 1,194kms. We decided to split it up and take our time to look at different aspects. There are time zones, a quarantine station, and lots of long straight stretches in the road to conquer.

After leaving Norseman, we drove on and our first stop was at the Fraser Range Station. This station is an active station which is the process of changing from sheep farming over to beef cattle, because the dingoes got (ate) all of their sheep. They have a very nice caravan park and cabins there, if you need to stay, as we would have liked to have stayed but it was too early in the day.

After our visit to Fraser Range station, we then drove on past Balladonia onto the famous stretch of road which is signposted as '90 Mile Straight', and it was straight until we got to Caiguna - where we stayed for the night.

Today (Thursday 9th) we left Caiguna, and drove through Cocklebiddy, and then onto the Madura Pass - which is considered the midway point between Adelaide and Perth. Just after the pass, is the Madura roadhouse, so we stopped for a lunch break.

After lunch we then drove past the Mundrabilla roadhouse until we got to Eucla. Whilst driving today, we came across two different spots that were marked suitable for the Royal Flying Doctor Service - on the road (we have seen these before).

Once we were at Eucla, we had time to go and look at the ruins of the old Telegraph Station which is located 4kms south of the town, which is near the beach. Whilst having a look around we also had a walk over towards the beach and found a very old jetty that is obviously not used anymore, but looked good in the turquoise coloured water - for photos!

We are in this new time zone 45mins ahead of WA time but 45mins behind SA, so watching the TV is a bit strange! The signposts on the Nullabor are unique (you will see on a photo) but we didn't see any wildlife come our way today except 3 eagles, but we unable to photograph them.

We are heading for South Australia tomorrow and Ceduna. We have thoroughly enjoyed our visit to WA, so it will be sad to say goodbye, but we must venture further forward as we come closer towards coming home.

Enjoy the photos.