Driving across the Nullarbor - and back again
8700 kilometres, three states, four time zones, twelve southern right whales, five emus, two dingoes, four hundred kangaroos (6 living), three quokkas, two peacocks, and approximately 1 million splattered insects on the front of the car.
One goal my wife and I had for a number of years now was to drive across the country, via the Nullarbor Plain. It is almost an Australian rite of passage to make the trip. I decided that I would document the trip to help preserve the memories from it, show you a few of the sights and also to provide a bit of a guide as to what the trip is like.
The trip took us to the top of limestone cliffs at the end of the country, the edge of an open-cut gold mine 400 metres deep, below the ground in caves, 40 metres above the ground in the treetops, and a hell of a lot of bitumen. Have a look at the following pages!
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- Preparing the car for the trip, Melbourne to Adelaide, Adelaide to Port Lincoln
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- Port Lincoln to Ceduna, Ceduna to Eucla, Eucla to Balladonia
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- Balladonia to Kalgoorlie, Kalgoorlie to Perth, Perth rest day, Rottnest Island
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- Fremantle, Perth to Margaret River, Margaret River rest day
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- Margaret River to Albany, Albany to Esperance, Esperance rest day
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- Esperance to Caiguna, Caiguna to Eucla, Eucla to Ceduna
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- Ceduna to Kimba, Kimba to Adelaide, Adelaide to Melbourne, Conclusion, Car Preparation Tips
There are photos scattered throughout the seven pages, but you might also want to see more photos at my flickr page of the trip! There are 71 photos up there at the moment, of the roughly 500 we took on the trip.