Crossing the Nullarbor

Leaving Wongaburra,we travelled through the Barossa Valley and passed the celler doors of many great winerys. Did not have a tasting as Baggy may have settled in for a session, but Yulumba,Penfolds, Woolf Blass, Annies Lane were calling out to him...Also saw the mighty Murray in our trip too.Caught up with Brad and Trish in Port Augusta, now our big journey starts..... Crossing the Nullarbor......

Well what can i say......Long days of continuous driving,sometimes trees., sometimes dry and barron, sometimes a lot of road kill, but always    FLYS!!
       1st night rest area at Kimba. Leaving Kimba next morning we had every intension of staying that night at Streaky Bay (Baggy was thinking about fishing again) but Streaky Bay was too busy ( School hols) too windy and too many flys...   Keeping the wheels turning we kept moving through Ceduna,,(we were told not to stay there and we did  a drive by of the caravan park ,with 6 ft high chain wire fence with barb-wire on top was enough for us)  We also noticed the locals riding around the township on scooters,we thought that was quite a site.

Next port of call was Cactus Beach.....Brad had fond memories of Cactus Beach when he last past through there at 15,that was to be our overnight stop.....Don't know what he was on at 15 but we all decided not to stay..Brads trip down memory lane was kept short and sweet..  We stayed at a roadside  rest area once again and experienced a thunder storm building around us.  

Had to have happy hour on the Nullarbor and when the conversation got around to the Woolf Creek Movie we all decided it was time to call it a night.  If any-one has seen that movie they will understand, don't worry Baggy had his cane knife for protection.  We were all alive the next morning ,so all is well...

We stopped at all the scenic lookouts on the Great Australian Bight..Once again the beauty was wonderful.  Expect FLYS, FLYS, and more FLYS....We are getting Trish used to bush camping as the beach-side stops are far behind us till we get to W.A.       Stopped at the township of Nullarbor petrol $1.79 lt. ..That hurt....      and we still had over 700 kl's to get to the end at Norseman.

There is a stretch of area on the Nullarbor somewhere in between the 1600 kl's  that is very humorous..It there to spread the humor.One local mentioned that it was started by the wicked van travellers. We saw a Bottle tree, a hat tree. a scare-crow tree, a shoe tree, and a knicker tree. Everyone leaves something behind.Of coarse we had to get in the swing and leave our memento behind on the knicker tree.(Leah and Ian   will understand)  Leah and Ian gave the 4 of us a box of gifts,(the night before we left) that  had meaning to things that have happened when we have holidayed together over the last 20 yrs. Some of these will appear from time to time in photos...    Mick with his toy helmet.. Brad  with his dummy and lai ,
Trish directing the vans in, and Vonnies eyes....More to follow on that subject...   We had to do a photo shoot of all the trees, well only the ones that the boys would stop for.  It broke the monotony and i think thats what its meant to do.....The trip was very long and we have been on the road for 5 days straight leaving Wongaburra last Saturday we have travelled about 2,000 kl . Tomorrow we head to the W.A coast and have some down time.. Look out Esperance here we come.

  Love to all.       The Baggys       

Our camp Woolf Creek

flys,flys,flys

The never ending story.

This ones for Leah.

Knicker Tree

Weird Things

Scarecrow

Shoe tree

more flys...

Getting searched on the border..   they took our honey...how strange

The Great Australian Bight

The Treeless Plain

Cactus Beach