The Great Australian Bight

After Ceduna we headed to the Great Australian Bight, Well What can i say but WOW! WOW! WOW!

We arrived just after opening time, and were the only ones there, while we chatted with the owners and appreciated the A/C away from the flies - how they can annoy you in the gale force wind ????? It was like being in a fan-forced oven on Very High! - now I know what a chip feels like!!

No whales would be seen, as the last one had swum past about 2 months previous.
But  we still had a great time and a LOT of exercise!

Breakfast was lovely - homemade scones with jam and cream or jam and cheese or just plain cheese - depending on whom you asked :) Mummy scored a hot chocolate, while daddy got a coffee. :)

Photo time oh wait first a little FYI,
If you should go to this particular main lookout/stop and you should perhaps take your camera, with VERY low batteries.......... take the path to the right FIRST, because then you will manage to squeeze in a family shot with a much more amazing and dramatic background :) oh yes and tie your hat to your head as it is sooooo very windy, i seriously considered attaching Claire to someone :)

anyway back to the photos

After our daybreak start......

Yes him too, but have just realised
 this is from the day before??
oh well, same difference :)

You want me to walk all the way down there?!?!
WHAT and then ALL the way back..... UPHILL!
with strollers, and wind, and 3yo's  with
" little legs that don't go very fast Mama!'

Oh alright i s'pose it was worth it
(and yes Jamie IS wearing the same shirt as 'yesterday' )

This was further down the road.....
after we'd hiked back to the truck and recuperated,
and changed camera batteries :)

Oh yes.... "the Road"

WELCOME TO THE NULLARBOR dear Family and Friends

Flat and treeless it certainly was!

Can you read the sign properly?? yeah me neither
It says something like 'eastern side of treeless plain'
I wanted the 'western side' sign also, but
A) we didn't see it and B) too hot to stop anyway :)

Finally we arrived at the border and saw our next 'Big thing" at Bordertown.

Introducing "Rooey II"

Apparently he used to have a beer stubbie in his hand, but they changed it to a can of 'solo' so as not to portray the 'wrong' image of the town LOL what does a solo can portray?? "sorry mate, you're on your own out here" (geddit? solo = one/alone) or "yeah we are cheesey doofus' just like the ad" Heh heh - I'd prefer to see the stubbie myself.

Any way The SA/WA border craps all over is far more impressive then the VIC/SA Border and WAYYY more then the QLD/NSW/VIC ones - at least where we passed ;) in my opinion anyway.

We probably should have stopped and done the whole

 "oh look we in SA oh look now we in WA" cheesy photo,

But again....... Trucks...... EVERYWHERE!!!!!

About 50kms in passing AGAIN for about the 5th time, a little old man in his, ever so slow, puffing smoke everywhere, little motor home. I was pulled over by the WA police. "Uh OH" thinks me, as 'Serena' (as we had now discovered was NOT Selena) had told me i was traveling about 115kms+ :o

So they says "oh, um, we arrr, we actually pulled you over because  (in a 110 zone) you were doing 116kms, we thought you were towing a trailor, but we can see now that it's just a big truck" Umm arrr, can i see your licence please?" "sure here it is" Big No No, for car/trailers to go OVER 100kms in WA

"ok that's all good, how about a doing a breath test then?" "sure"  then the lady officer steps up and asks about the kids car seats, whether Kaytie was in a legal seat and all, THEN  they ask "so How long have you had the cracks in the windscreen??" that's when it was our turn to ummmm and ahhhh :) (stay quiet Samuel!!) "oh just the other day i think, Officer???, we plan on fixing at soon as we get to Perth"  "MmmHmmmm"says the officer  :o   "just make sure you get it done as soon as you get there" and off you go" I'ts now nearly 4 weeks later and just at this present moment in time I am on the phone organising a replacement windscreen :) Aren't I clever at multi-tasking ;) and it's turning into a MAMMOTH task :S

Anyway, crossing the border into WA 'added'2.5 hrs to the clock so 'technically' it was still lunchtime  so we pushed on to Norseman and got there just on dark, to a tiny little town, with nothing open - we were in desperate need of food! and not even anything suitable at the big servo! so we were "forced" to stay in a cabin, and 'go out' for dinner. May I add that for such a tiny town it was the BEST dinner i have had 'out' in a long long time - ignoring the frequency of my dinner's out ;P

couple more photos if blogger will let me then i'd better feed some starving children (ahem, whom have been watching Magic School Bus dvd's for about cough cough 3 hrs!! ummmm, there will be a test over dinner on what you learnt :s  )

getting dark, surely after 12hrs driving and however

 many hours stopping for toilet breaks we nearly there?

oh ps i think this was the longest straightest road in oz? the south hemisphere?
OH MY WORD!! Soooooo Boring and Tiring!, could quite happily have left THIS part out!

Jamie asked several times if i wanted to swap, but stubborn as i am i wanted to stick it out :)



Finally Norseman

 cute camel sculptures they had scattered about the town





I'm thinking that maybe camels had something to do with the founding of the town??

any way had best leave it there as the laptop is starting to chuck a na-na and the children are trying to justify watching SpongeBob over playing outside, hmmmmm definitely time to go :) Oh and now i hear pitiful moaning from 'PlaireBear' "look Mum-mahhh, dat from my dooter sniff sniff " (scooter)  :D

5 more sleeps yayy!!

OX(OX)oxoxoxoxox

B(J)slkcs 

had various 'arguments' as to whether these were salt flats or just white sand