After the scorcher of a day on the Nullarbor, we had a surprisingly pleasant cool night. Woke up the next morning to a grey cloudy sky and even a hint of rain. The radio was still warning of a scorching hot day in Adelaide with a late change. It seems the change had already hit us. The next part of our journey consisted of trekking down the west coast of the Eyre Peninsula, a region signposted as the 'Seafood Frontier.' This whole coast revolved around seafood o...

We have crossed the Nullarbor three times before, and this is our fourth. The first time we went east to west with the kids, then back west to east a month later. The third time was four years ago during our loop of Highway 1, so was also west to east. This time was west to east as well. However I still maintain the best way to see the Nullarbor, especially your first time, is to travel east to west. You begin at Ceduna, the official start of the 'tree-less plai...

We arrived in Coober Pedy early Sunday afternoon, and were a bit dismayed. The roads were uneven and badly paved - those that were paved at all. Half the roads in town were dirt. The main road had a myriad of signs advertising various businesses, but it was obvious that many had closed down years ago, and were covered with graffiti and signs of vandalism. Those that seemed to be still in business were also mostly closed. This may have just been because it was Sun...

Beautiful sunset over Andamooka that evening. Had another surreptitious coffee the next morning before bidding a reluctant farewell to Andamooka. As we headed back towards the Stuart Highway the first port of call was Roxby Downs, the town that belonged to the Olympic Dam mine. The company had built this town for its workers, and it was well built, clean, with all the services you could ever need. But apart from that there was not much to it, and not much to see...

Left Port Augusta and hit the outback proper. The scenery alternated between small trees and bushes, to open plains dotted with grey-green tussocks of grass, to salt plains and dry salt lakes. As we drove there were signs warning about wandering animals as we were actually driving through unfenced cattle stations. However we didn't see anything but a few emus, one with two small chicks, and a couple of very confused looking sheep. Stopped at a rest stop on the w...