Tuesday 8th January The weather forecast was a key player in our plans today. It started at 7am when I woke up, showered, made breakfast, washed up & had us ready to roll by 7.30. We needed an early start to avoid driving the car in the silly heat again & Adelaide was still 400km away. We stopped first of all at Port Pirie, an industrial town mainly with an enormous port. We checked out the visitors centre for some information & had the guided tou...

Sunday 6th January We drove to Port Lincoln via a couple of small port towns & a small town called Elliston. We decided to do the scenic drive into Elliston & it didn't disappoint. The views over the bay were incredible, the waves here were as big as we've seen too. Lots of signs warning about the dangers of sharks & overhanging cliff edges! We arrived in Port Lincoln early afternoon, asked about the Great White Shark Cage Dive & then booked i...

Friday 4th January Today we drove into Norseman, blagged a free shower & drinking water at a campsite, filled the car with fuel, the tyres with air & our esky with ice & hit the road. The Nullarbor is a stretch of road linking West Australia with South Australia. It runs through the outback for almost 1,300km & has no turn offs or towns along the way. There are petrol stations every few hundred K's but that's it. We drove over 700km today, almo...

Thursday 27th December Today was more like Xmas, for me at least. This was the day that I'd been looking forward to as much as I looked forward to Xmas as a kid. We've had our van for 4 days now & we're itching to get it out on a proper run. We packed all our things into the van & gave our section of the house a good clean before heading off towards Pemberton, our first nights 'accommodation'. We stocked up on ciders, fuel, water & food, in that o...

Wednesday 19th December Our taxi driver was waiting in reception for us at 6am to drop us at the airport for the much anticipated Perth flight!! Woohoo!! When you book a taxi, you expect the driver to have a licence. This guy clearly didn't. He obviously had no idea what the white lines are for on the motorway, what the numbers in red circles on the side of the road are for & that a manual gearbox means you manually have to change the gears. Amazingly we ...