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Norseman Slideshow
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Travel Blogs from Norseman, Australia
In the middle of nowhere!
This is a top pick! First bordercrossing where they took our 3 onions Roos everywhere Hot evening, 10C First rain in ...
The Bone Collector
This is a top pick! ... some wholesome, lairy characters. A team of four railway engineers who travel around these lonesome outposts servicing the electrics of Australia's remotest railways. We ended up back at their cabin and got blind. They were proper strineys too and so ...
The Uphill Gardener
This is a top pick! ... was probably where we saw the main bloom of change along this whole stretch: abundant red soil, the hallmark of crossing Australia's outback and everything I'd expected crossing the Nullarbor to be. It wasn't long before we took an excitable u-bolt and ...
Across The Nullabor: Day 3
... High Tech Cooling Device we carried on and finished the Nullabor. Piece of piss. This part of Oz has the 90 Mile Straight, Australia's longest straight road. There's nothing to do for the next 146.6 kilometres but try to get road trains to honk you to ...
first stop before the long open road...
a stop for gas station style thai curry and plenty of water before the long drive through the ...
The Nullarbor
... us off along the "90 mile straight" a, well it's a 90 mile stretch of straight road......the longest straight road in Australia. It was............ well........ straight for the whole 90 miles but there were still tree's, a bit stunted by now but still ...
trekking across the nullarbor
After a good nights sleep in a real bedroom we reluctantly leave the very picturesque sheep station behind. Weve taken loads of photos it really has been a memorable stay here- a great start to our trip across the nullabor- already not what we were ...
Ceduna - Caiguna 835kms
... Australia where nearly immediately we are pulled over by the police....Random breath test and licence check (the difference! over in South Australia everyone seems to be drinking and driving)- Lin gets a zero on the breath test and on we go another ...
Ceduna to Cocklebiddy
... windscreens that had obviously careered off the road on impact. The Nullarbor Desert is a vast plain that stretches across the south of Australia, it's name coming from the Latin for 'no trees' (check me, with my GCSE Latin and my, ahem, Lonely ...
and they're off
... about 100km the nullabor- it sounds great - but not wanting to push maz too hard we havnt booked. Surprisingly, we soon reach norseman and maz is feeling really good. Its 3pm and with nothing here for us (weird place- sight of a famous horse who ...
Across The Nullarbor
This is a top pick! ... the tongues of fire lick the night sky whilst many a yarn was told and many a great travel tip was shared. Continuing along into Norseman we finally arrived at our left turn and made our way to Esperance, the Salmon Gums were stunning with the morning sun ...
South West Loop: Day 2
... her how to spell it. She looked at us and raised a single eyebrow before slowly and carefully spelling out, K-I-M. She abandonded us in Norseman anyway where we spent the night as she met a mate (who, randomly, knows our mate Bex coz she works at the ...
Day 5 - Coolgardie to Norseman
... who were thankful of the 25 kms pit stops - the cold weather and plenty of fluid during the ride made it a necessity. We made Norseman (named after a horse) at 4.30 pm - a slow day, but the second half being quite enjoyable. We set up in the squash ...
We crossed the Nullarbor!
... Jimmy Carter rang the Balladonia roadhouse to apologise for Skylab falling into the area and offered to pay for any damages. By reaching Norseman we had officially crossed the Nullarbor in three days. Isabel said ' it wasn't as long as a thought ...
The Nullabour... (Meaning: never ending road...)
Howdy folks, we are officially back on the grid! Wednesday morning we left Esperence, heading for the Nullabour, via Norseman, our last speck of civilization and fuel for quite a while. Stopping to fill the car and jerry cans proved ...
Rettilineo
... in un aeroporto! Superata Balladonia, incontriamo il cartello che ci avvisa che stiamo per percorrere il rettilineo piu' lungo d'Australia, e probabilmente uno dei piu' lunghi del mondo. Volante che non si muove di una virgola e acceleratore piantato sui ...
Fraser Range Station - Sheep station
Woke early, because we had put our clocks back 1 and half hours!! so on the road by 7.45am. Drove another 7 hours through even more scrub, with little contact with other vehicles. Drove one stretch of road, that says it is the longest straightest in ...
Day 6 - Rest day
... Rec Centre for lunch. I then got my blog up to date. Mark, Alan, Robyn and Luke then headed off on foot to look at Norseman mines, slagheap (which is very prominent at the eastern end of town) and the town lookout. The walk turned out to be a lot longer ...
On the road again ...
... way through the trip or at the end. We are armed with two news books that you would enjoy Pop – “Camping around Australia” and “The Around Australia Guide”. The latter is Steve Parish’s book and he is well known for his ...
Norseman
At a spot 90ks east of Norseman tonight. Big drive today, 760 k,s with nothing much to see except for the odd mad cyclist trying to prove something to someone, goodness knows what!! Did a quick lap of the town but we have to come back down thru here ...
Engine Trouble
... . I've already describe the road to you so there's not much really to tell. We passed a sign that read '9 Mile Straight - Australia's longest stretch of straight road 146.6km', we groaned in harmony as we passed that one. Time to switch the auto pilot ...
Norseman
Norseman Arrived at Norseman with enough time to book into a motel, grab some tea from down the street and sit back on the bed to watch the cricket and later footy. Norseman was just a stopover town, nothing to see. Gold mining history but not much ...
Cocklebiddy Roadhouse
We have finished the Nullarbor crossing and are only about 500 km away from the next place where the towns population is more than 6. The journey today was so boring that when we saw a rock we called it Hudson. Playing I spy is a little bit ...
May 6, 2012, day 2
... with the amount the ground can change in a short distance, and the fact that I actually noticed, We were looking forward getting to Norseman and starting the Eyre highway, we were hoping to go to the IGA to get some supplies but even though it says open ...
It had to happen: tire exploded!!!
We stopped in Balladonia to rest (especially the driver as Caro and me were mostly sleeping in the car, you guess that crossing the desert is a bit boring, thousands of kms without seeing anything...). Anyway we stopped at the petrol station, and there ...