Hello friends! Red and Rusty are on the road again, this time chasing the setting sun toward Western Australia with our fellow motorhoming friends, John and Steph.
So far en route we have stayed at some familiar spots including Port Augusta, the great free camp at Wudinna, Ceduna and our first visit to the isolated Fowlers Bay.
A couple of nights in the Fowlers Bay CP enabled us to do a bit of exploring in the Jimny, the windmills at Penong, breathtaking coastline, picturesque Port Sinclair where the local kids were having swimming lessons and the (usually very) pink Lake Macdonnell. We also had enough time to do some moderately successful fishing (enough tommies for dinner) off of the jetty.
After Fowlers Bay we dropped in to the Head of the Bight Visitor Centre, quieter at the moment as it is not whale season but from May to October it is one of the best places in Australia to see Southern Right Whales as they come here to calve. We’ll have to come back we decided.
The Australian Hydrographic Society defines the bight ( not BITE) as stretching from Cape Pasley, Western Australia to Cape Carnot, South Australia, a distance of 1,160 kilometres and it is stunning.
To be able to camp literally on its edge is both exhilarating and somewhat terrifying. Early morning calm conditions had me brave enough to launch the drone to capture some classic off shore shots and once on the road we visited a couple of lookouts that also afforded great views.
The ‘13km peg‘ was an interesting overnight stay, 13 kms from the SA/WA border and affording vistas of a much gentler slope down to the shoreline with distance glimpses of the sandhills at Eucla.
Despite the numerous free camping spots along our route the sheer number of recreational vehicles meant we were rarely completely alone. Seeing a single car with no tow vehicle on the Eyre Highway became the anomaly not the norm. It seems the whole nation owns a camper trailer, caravan or motorhome now and why wouldn’t they!
We reached Eucla early enough to disconnect the cars and head toward the coast to check out the old Telegraph Station ruins and the picturesque jetty remains.
With a favourable tailwind and mild temperatures we completed our leisurely journey across the Nullarbor yesterday and are now restocking at Norseman, named after the horse that discovered gold near here 😉
Tomorrow we turn south toward Esperance and the easter hordes 🙂