On Monday the 13th of July we left Crystal Brook and headed straight to Birdwood. I'd always wanted to visit the National Motor Museum and today was the day. The National Motor Museum is an automobile museum that was established in 1964 and is Australia's largest motor museum, with over 400 vehicles on display. The museum was really good to go through, the kids also had a lot of fun there. So many cars to see, from the "back to the future" Delorean to Ferraris...

Leaving Coober Pedy we worked out how much fuel we would need to get to Port Augusta. Where possible we have avoided filling up in remote areas as price can be up to $1.00 more per litre than the general price around the cost. The most we paid for diesel was $2.01 per litre at Yulara. So the plan was to make it to Port Augusta with just enough fuel on board. However the weather had other ideas sending a 50km/h head wind our way. By 10:00 am the weather had re...

We made our way toward Coober Pedy, stopping at a free camp around 100 km north of Coober Pedy for the evening. It was a great spot to stop because we had road gravel to set up on. I can't tell you much you get sick camping, walking in and cleaning up red dust. The stuff gets into everything. The next day (Thursday the 9th of July) we arrived at Coober Pedy and checked into the Oasis Caravan Park. The weather had definitely turned now and the wind was chilli...

We spent Anzac Day on the road getting some kilometers out of the way. To start a quick run into Border Village (84km) to go through the quarantine ckeckpoint and then into WA. However the drive to Border Village made us wondering what on earth we were doing. We had a string of road trains (some 5.7 meters wide to contend with). Honestly it's scarry stuff, you are out in the dirt trying to either get passed or around them. Thank God for the UHF so we could co...

From our free camp near Penong we hit the Eyre Highway again and made our way to another free camp near Koonalda. The Eyre Hightway takes you through the Yalata Aboriginal Reserve and into the Nullarbor National Park. We stopped at the "Head of the Bite" for lunch. This is a look out over the great Australian bite and southern ocean. From May to October southern right whatles come here to bread. We missed the whales by two weeks. To the east of the bite ther...