Wudinna

We refuelled at Wudinna around 8am and headed West only stopping to refuel at Ceduna and Nullarbor Road House. The border crossing into WA was uneventful and the caravan inspection was nowhere near as thorough as on our last trip, but we still handed in all our fruit and vegetables.

We are now in WA after crossing the border at 5:30pm S.A. time and suddenly we had to adjust the clock to 4pm. But the good part of travelling West is the gain in daylight hours, by the time we finished the day at Mundrabilla we covered nearly 800km.

The most expensive Diesel was purchased at Nullarbor for $2.07/ltr and they collect the drivers license before switching the pump on and return it after the fuel is paid for. Apparently some people drive off without paying - no wonder at those prices, but they've got a captive audience being the only servo on this 300km stretch of road.

Many Road Trains are travelling this East-West route and they are all very professional and courteous on the road, not like some of the truckies we have on the Hume Highway. Our travel speed is 110km/h so we have to pass the slower Road Trains and caravaners which is fairly easy with the long, wide and straight roads where oncoming traffic can be seen for many kilometres.

Another quick stopover today was Bunda Cliffs (Photo), about 75km before the WA border, where we admired the vista over the Great Australian Bight. It is an amazing sight standing on the edge of the 200 foot vertical drop with the endless Souther Ocean below.

At Eucla Pass the road drops down and instead of travelling at the top of the cliffs we are now down at sea level but the road is still long wide and straight.

Our typical travel days are very much like work days at home - get up, have brekkie, hitch up, drive, morning smoko (while driving), stop for lunch, keep driving, afternoon smoko (still driving), stop for the night when the sun is almost down, setup camp, eat, download photos onto the computer and geotag them (using GPS track), write blog, answer emails, shower and then fall into bed and rest so we can do it all agin tomorrow.

I'm not sure how some of the other travellers find time to watch the telly they have in their caravan?

Todays travel map can be viewed by clicking on this link.