Up early again this morning. Went to the super pit mine lookout as the sun rose, great to see it in the dark and in daylight. The gold mine is so big and is even bigger below the ground, unbelievably it's so close to the town. We know now, why you would never by a car from the mines, the roads are lined with a hydra saline solution to minimise the dust. Toured the royal flying doctor service today. They put on a great discussion, no plane in today as they ...

On our departure check this morning at 5.45am WA time, we noticed one of the van tyres was a little flat. Hawkeye Lachlan found that it already had a plugged hole (from previous owners) and was leaking air from it. Rather than worry about repatching we put on one of the spares and started off on the 146 km longest straight road in Australia. We concurred The Nullabour today. Arriving in Norseman, we were surprised at how small the town is, it's such a large sp...