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This stretch of road was absolutely fascinating. There were so many things to stop and look at that Elizabeth and Jonathon got tired of getting in and out of the car; which is vastly different to what we anticipated. We left Streaky Bay and headed to Ceduna, the start of the Nullarbor, and finished our Nullarbor travels this morning when we arrived in Norseman. It is a really good stretch of road, wide which made spotting animal hazards easy (we didn't see any despite the signs) and made for easy passing of trucks, caravans and road trains. In fact there was so much traffic that Dave complained he was developing RSI of his fingers due to all the 'waving' to be done to passing vehicles. We only used the CB radio once to help us pass another van (much larger than us), but we wonder whether this will be more useful when we hit NT, or even northern WA.
We saw a handful of committed cyclists, protestors against drilling in the Bight (standing with placads along the highway), people Nordic walking along the roadside... There was never a dull moment.
We played a golf hole in the Worlds Longest Golf Course, it was Par 3 and we got it in 12, the rough was pretty serious, its lucky we found the ball at all. We saw Australia's largest windmill in a Windmill Museum, the Big Kangaroo and where SkyLab came down in 1979 (the WA government issued a $400 'littering fine' to NASA and it was paid!). The Great Australian Bight was beautiful but it was seeing footage from the drone that really drove home just how sheer the cliff face is. Sleeping on the Nullarbor next to these cliffs was definitely a highlight. The following night was spent at the first station settled on the Nullarbor, Frasers Range. We saw horses, wallabies, March flies, a shooting star amongst the Milky Way, and learnt how to find south using the Southern Cross.
Tonight we are at Esperance and plan on going to Lucky Bay tomorrow for a day trip, Australia's whitest beach but also where kangaroos come down to the shore. Some sand castle building and swimming in the shallows sounds good to us all.