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Travel Blogs from Eucla, Australia
The wind
We were up at 2:00am, and on the road at 3:40, it was cold, we could warm up and get into a rhythm, the legs just wouldn't go we were only doing 15 ks an hour, it was seventy km's to Madura, we stopped at the Madura pass lookout, it's where you drop down ...
Cave dwellers and cave man day
Today is not what you would expect on the nullarbor. We stopped at Cocklebiddy over night and unhitched the van so we could explore. A drive of about 20km we came across two great caves. However, without abseiling gear we were stuck looking from above. ...
Nothing boring 'bout the Nullarbor!
... three! Last night was our first attempt at bush camping, and we are one-quarter of the way to declaring our new Camp Australia book worth its asking price. We rolled into a bush park called “Scenic Lookout” for fairly obvious reasons. ...
Great Australian Bight - Eucla
... Border Town and is on the South Australian side. The cliffs of the Great Australian bight extend from west of Eucla through to Ceduna in South Australia. When we visited the bight in 1993 with our children, they insisted on venturing close to the edge of ...
Perth to SA: across the Nullabor and beyond...
... plenty of space between us all. Up again and we were back on the Eyre Highway, travelleing through Balladonia, Cocklebiddy, Madura and Eucla, where we stopped and had a shower at the caravan park, before continuing on across the WA/SA border for another ...
der Weg nach Esperance...
... nicht abstuerzt =) In West Australien angekommen durften wir feststellen das die Einfuhrbestimmungen noch haerter sind als in South Australia oder Victoria. Hier darf man weder Knoblauch, Kartoffeln und Honig ueber die Grenze mit sich fuehren. Unser ...
The Longest Straightest Road in Austalia
... in Eucla. Monday 27-Mar, the highlight of our continuing journey across the Nullarbor is driving the 90 mile stretch - Australia's longest, straight section of road. We turned left at Norseman and pushed ourselves another 200km to check in at Seafront ...
Null - nothing
... , I'm not sure where he thought we'd secreted flowers!! But was obviously worried we were planning a major epidemic for Western Australia and were smuggling in some evil virus, even though I declared straight off one tomato and one potato. Eventually, we ...
Cactus Beach
... at the milk bar at Penong. Rylee's Fact:- The cliffs at Cactus Beach are made of sandstone and limestone. Ella's Fact:- Edward John Eyre walked through Cactus Beach in 1840 on his way to Western Australia. It was also explored by the Dutch in the ...
Crossing into Western Australia
So we passed the border into Western Australia finally! Along the way we actually got some rain!! Stopped at some beautiful cliff beaches, almost ran over heaps of kangaroos, drove alongside a wild dingo, and crossed the infamous Nullarbor Plain!! ...
Flies,frustration,fights
... viewing bays is goosebump stuff-we are right in the middle of the bite the giant took out of this delicious country. South Australia,impressions so far. That rabbit/dingo proof fence must really work. They are everywhere along with foxes. Yet to see ...
Day 58-59 Eucla (NULLARBOR Stage 2)
... No-one ventures out from the car at Bunda Cliffs, I am alone in the heat trying to appreciate the sheer drop and realisation that Australia's southern edge is actually like some-one has taken a huge bite of the land!! Many of the car pull-out points have ...
esperance to eucla
just a stopover here really on the most uncomfortable campsite ever!!had to buy a box off wine to make it more comfortable!! the drive over was strange, went on the 90 mile straight. literally. and there is nothing either ...
Eastbound and Down
... we take a downhill curve at the Madura Pass we get a breathtaking view over the plain. We push onto Eucla which is 12km short of the South Australia border and get a discount motel room for the night. Basically like our shack at the vineyard ...
new state - south australia
after flying through the border, we stay right on the wa / sa line the one night for a roadhouse tea and no free ...
Border town
... i was sure it was in there, at least its soft, i knew i was a fair way ahead of dad, I went up the Eucla pass, our first glimpse of the ocean, where I saw my first snake, a little dugite, only about 200mm long, I was waiting for ...
WA-SA Border: sleeping in the dunes
... There were at least 200 kangaroos in various condition along this stretch (none of them alive though). For the next few hundred km to Eucla, there was at least a kangaroo per km. I got really sick of it, feeling very sorry for them. A real massacre. At ...
crossing the treeless Nullarbor plains
To cross from the east to the west of Australia the common route to the South crosses the remote Nullarbor plains, a treeless high plain which impresses with a lot of numbers: For several hundred km the road leads through this neverchanging landscape, ...
Streaky Bay - Eucla
... owes me 50 cents but seems to have developed selective demetia. Late in the afternoon I reached the WA\SA border town of Eucla. Another quick fruit fly inspection by WA quarantine revealed nothing. I should have joked that I only had a male and female ...
Zeitzonen
Nach ein paar Kilometern sind wir heute morgen in die Central Western Time gefahren, das bedeutet eine Uhrumstellung nach vorne von 45 Minuten. Witzigerweise fahren wir morgen nach 12 Kilometern über die West / Südaustralische Grenze und die Uhr wird ...
The Nullabor - Part I
... that informed us that the area has a population of 8, 25 budgies, 7 quail, 1 dog and 1,234,567 kangaroos! (See attached photo). Camp that night was another roadside freebee (and another campfire) just west of Eucla. Tomorrow we'll be in South Australia.. ...
Day 3 - Ceduna, SA to Eucla, WA, 540km
... great stories in regard to Cactus Beach. This beach is world-renowned and regarded by many as the best surf beach in Australia. Funnily enough it was named such because some surfers on the search for new breaks came across the beach on an ...
Longest Golf Course in the World - 1,365 kms!
... tall Travellers Cross was a welcome sight for the early West Australian travellers as they approached the border with South Australia. The Bight ends at Eucla so the ocean is again level with the Eyre Highway on the Roe Plains. On Wednesday morning ...
A long day.
... it was summer (I was about 12 yrs old) and the road wasn’t sealed. From Norseman its 725km to the SA border near Eucla then it’s 480km to Ceduna. Apparently Perth to Adelaide is the same distance as London to Moscow. Road trains were the main ...
Raining on the Nullaboring Plain
... having had the car searched for illegal and dangerous goods such as apples, oranges, honey, nuts... We were excited about reaching Eucla, Nicola had positively raved about the place and we were planning on spending a couple of nights here (She had ...
Another long day.
... Nullarbor if you want. There are 18 holes spread across the Nullarbor. Also today we could see the Great Australian Bight. We stopped at Eucla and drove down a very muddy road to try to see the ocean. We saw the ruins of the old telegraph station but the ...
9 Not Nullarbor-ing Things To Do
... South Australia and draws you west with its hypnotic straightness until it finally spits you out at Norseman in Western Australia 1,668km (1036miles) later. Crossing the Nullarbor Plain you will drive the longest straightest stretch of road in Australia, ...
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