Travel Blogs from Ceduna, Australia
The Nullabor
... certificates for crossing the plain - yahoo. Just After Eucla we passed over our first state border and we were now in South Australia. A little further on was the the chance to stretch the legs again and take in the sheer orange hued cliffs of the Great ...
Days Like This
... a lot of time on his hands. He tilted his head in the direction of the road and said we could go and walk 'into' Western Australia if we wanted to. We did want to. And so we walked right across the borderline, one foot in South Australia, the other in ...
'Not If You're White'
... a second thought. Until today. The whole racism thing is something I'd wondered about long before I arrived in Australia. We've been in Ceduna less than a day, and already I've heard some pretty sobering words from white Australians towards ...
"Its a long way to Tipperary...!"
... drive north to Port Augusta, then straight back down again. (This will make more sense if you look at a map of Australia) Upon arrival, we quickly realised that outback Australia doesn't have much of a nightlife! We were actually lucky enough to have ...
Preparing to cross the Nullarbor
Stayed overnight at a caravan park so we could charge everything up and shower before heading off across the ...
Day 13 - Nundroo Roadhouse to Ceduna
... us. Or maybe the good Lord was looking after us. Tonight we were back sleeping on the floor, but had tea at the Ceduna Sailing Club. Ceduna is quite a nice seaside spot, with Norfolk Is trees, a pier and grassed beach boardwalk. Mark, Yvonne and I ...
The Indian Pacific
The Indian Pacific Train takes 4 days to go from Perth (on the Indian Ocean) to Sydney (on the Pacific - hence the name!!) 2 of those days are taken crossing the Nullabor ...
Another day another bay
Streaky Bay, Smoky Bay and next up Fowlers Bay all have long jetty's. The towns pride themselves on their Jetty's and its use as a great fishing location. Off the Streaky Bay pier the kids and I watched an elderly couple pull in 10 Tommy ...
The perfect place to hide from Easter Bunny!
... not bothering with the rest of the peninsula. The Easter break is pending, and the locals are heading for the coastal towns, so the main Ceduna caravan parks were full to the brim. This turned out to be a bonus, as we had to go back to the “airport ...
Ceduna, last city before the desert...
Ok that's it we are in the last city before the actual desert, if you don't get any news from us in 4 days, send thew ...
Bookabie
We road to nundroo roadhouse, fairly hilly country, saw some nice old houses there, run down of course, and the remains of under ground water storage tanks used for watering stock, and old farm equipment, but whats that! a sign for a best western, we had ...
Ghost Town!!
We made two stops along the way but thought only a few pictures of one town were required. The town is Cook. Ghost town, population: 4 people (all work in the gift shop) & 3 million flies. This town was a little freaky but hey that's what you get for ...
Ceduna
... when we went to the top of the dunes to see in 2009. Once 2nd Jan arrived we had bought Emmas plane ride to Perth so we set off for the long journey across the 'Nullarbor' to Western Australia and discover the area before she arrived on the 12th ...
Day EIGHTY NINE
Leaving Cactus Beach for the short 150kms to Ceduna where we decided to stay the night so we could stock up on water and fruit and veggies after handing them over at the quarantine station. At least we did not have to open the van up to the inspector this ...
Nullabor Plain
Nullabor Plain Headed off from Venus Bay, through Ceduna to get a few supplies, then across the first stretch of the Nullabor Plain to the Nullabor Roadhouse. Stayed the night in crappy accommodation. I knew the Nullabor stretch of road was going to be ...
ceduna
... , but he doesn't know that, cause I haven't given it to him yet, I'll present it to him at the end of the trip, ceduna is a nice place right on the water, known for its fishing and oysters, all across the nullarbor we would come by a pile of dozen oyster ...
Stuck in Ceduna
... of it :( Day 2 we set off towards the Nullarbor Plain which is a huge stretch of road that goes across southern australia. Well, I was a wee tired from driving so much and decided to let Filippo drive. 20 min later we pulled into ...
Dubbya Eh, done dirt cheap ...!
... . We’d been racing the clock two days in a row, due to the time differences as we moved from one state of Australia to the next, but the last day was the worst. Whereas the West Australians had generously signposted the change, the ...
Day 57-58 Fowlers Bay (NULLARBOR Stage 1 )
... were rolling down the hills and Greg joined in too. Fireworks off the jetty that night signalled the last of the celebrations for Australia Day. We plan to leave as early as possible tomorrow to make some headway on the Nullarbor and hope to make it ...
Yalata
We weren't in much of a hurry this morn, in fact I don't think we left until about 10:00, we were dreading the thought of wind, It wasn't as strong as passed days, but it was still a pain, we were now about halfway, as we were out along the highway about ...
Safely across the Nullabor
Just to let you all know we made it across without too many dramas, and are now heading for Adelaide. Had a brilliant trip - will update soon with all details and lots of pics..... ...
No trees!
... and north meets south) and moved on through the bottom of South Australia. We did stop at Kimba (claims to be halfway across Australia) and visited the big galah! The stories of the road trains are true - they are massive and are up to 3 massive ...
Adelaide - Ceduna 780kms
... you want any car trouble. So we decide when we get to Ceduna to rest for a day and then begin the mammoth journey to Western Australia. There is not alot to report on Ceduna - small enough town by the sea, not a great beach and nothing really to ...
Day 56-57 Ceduna
... needed to stay here as Greg had arranged to meet a bloke at the pub and he was to receive a call from SEN from Ceduna's Australia Day breakfast tomorrow morning. Cautiously we moved in and around the van over the next 12hrs. We found the microwave had ...
Was gibt es schoeneres als die See ...
... alles was wir in Coober Peedy sehen wollten gesehen hatten, ging es 500 km auf einer alten uns endloserscheinenden Sandpiste richtung Ceduna ... das muss man sich mal reinziehen 500 km Sandpiste ... das ist so als wuerde ich von Berlin nach Koeln auf ...
