Calling all Moomins.

Welcome back, this post has been a work in progress for some time. Whilst the GIFs in here are not my finest work, the editing that has gone into the video that led you here has been monumental.

Quick recap: I left Ceduna on my way to the Head of Bight and then…

The Nullarbor Road Trip

Commonly referred to as doing The Nullarbor, it is considered an Australian rite of passage. This road trip is a journey across the Eyre Highway and is approximately 1200 km long, crossing from South Australia (SA) into Western Australia (WA).

However, no one is talking about how fugging boring it is!

Only joking, maybe. I imagine with someone to talk to it could have been hella more interesting.

Now to be forever known as The Nullarboring!

Enough chatter, let’s do this. Press this 👇🏻

The Nullarbor Roadhouse

Whilst Ceduna was the last town before the Nullarboring, this roadhouse is considered the official start.

With a simple caravan park behind it, I stayed here for one night.

Here I had the biggest sausages I have ever seen in a bangers and mash.

They actually made me blush.

Lookouts

The South Australian side did at least try to take into account that it might be boring as all hell and placed three lookouts along the way

Of course, that was too much, so they reverted to boredom for the naming technique.

Border Crossing

Ah yes the highlight of the trip.

WA has a real thing about contamination, so there is a border control. Here, your vehicle is inspected for forbidden foods, most of which are fruit, some might say forbidden fruits!

I pull in and am greeted by a Policeman. The following is a true and highly accurate depiction of what happened.

Him – *Thrusts object into my face*

Me – What’s that?

Him – Haven’t you ever seen a breathalyser before?

Me – No, because I am a good girl 😳

Him – *Waiting*

Me – What do I have to do?

Him – *Pointing* Put your lips around this and blow!

Me – 😂

Him – 😂

His work colleagues – 😂

Ten minutes later I successfully passed the breathalyser test and was cleared of forbidden fruits.

Eucla

Now look, I realise I come across as a bit of a dumb butt, but the time zones in this country are mental.

SA to WA has a time shift of 1.5 hours, but WA is massive and so the people of Eucla (and neighbouring towns) decided it was too much of a gap. They split it, and so it has a time shift of 45 minutes.

Best of all, it’s recognised but isn’t official and so who really knows when to change your phone time.

With at least three different ways to tell the time in JC, I’m not sure even now I know what time it is.

I stayed overnight here mainly for the swimming pool. Of which I had entirely to myself, the owners even let me take Jackson inside the pool area.

Talking of Pool, here I played some Aussie rules Pool (billiards for the Germans) and well it’s quite different.

Needless to say because of their own rules about fouling on the black, I won 3 for 3.

Eucla Jetty

Imagine my excitement to see a jetty on the map.

The following morning, Jackson and I set off to find this mysterious jetty, situated about 1200m from a random car park.

The wind was so bad that we made it about 400m before I could literally see the sand ripping the skin off my legs. Laurence of Arabia we are not, and so we returned.

We did however stumble across the old telegraph station.

Things got decidedly more dull after Eucla. The odd roadhouse here and there and then this 👇🏻

90 Mile Straight

Another infamous stretch of road. Called so because it is 90 miles long and straight.

That’s what you would think, isn’t it? But no. Called so because it’s 90 miles long and has no turn offs (exits).

I suppose the Exitless 90 Miles, doesn’t have the same ring to it.

Altogether it looked a little something like this..👇🏻

Baxter’s Rest

After what felt like driving for 10 years I arrived at my chosen rest stop.

A free place to camp, no real amenities, but a solitary dump toilet.

While the Fly Threat Level was increasing I was too tired to care. Perhaps because it was free, or just because I was so tired but I slept like a baby.

Now on the home straight, all that was left was to finish it off and arrive at Norseman.

The Nullarbor: completed it mate!

XOXO