29th November 2018 - We left Lucky Bay a place that we really loved and went back to Esperancefor a night to prepare for our trip across the Nullarbor.

Friday 30th November 2018 - We drove north from Esperance to Norseman passing through The Great Western Woodlands that is the largest untouched woodland of eucalypts and Gimlet trees left in the world. This woodland is almost the same size as England.

We had a short stop along the Heritage Trail where the Dundas settlement was established in 1893. The sites of a planned township with the streets named can still be seen but the development didn't go ahead because gold was found near Norseman.

We made another quick stop in Norseman for fuel and to see the statue of Norseman that was a sturdy little horse the town's namesake and the Tin camels that stood in a roundabout as a tribute to the early Afghan camel trains. The main street is particularly wide so that the camel trains could turn around.

After Norseman and the woodland in the Dundas Nature Reserve the landscape changed to low lying shrubs & bushes with the odd tree. We also kept a look out as camels, emu's, kangaroo's and cattle roam this vast open range.

Balladonia roadhouse the location where debris from NASA's Skylab crash landed in 1979 - Oops! and the last place for a break before our final stop for the night part way along 90 Mile Straight - Australia's longest straight road (146.6kms).

Saturday 1st December 2018 - We were up on the road again at 5:45am as it is less windy in the early morning and we are hoping for a tail wind to help us cross the Nullurbor (means Treeless) Plain.

As we continue driving the landscape has now become very flat and covered in green and sage coloured vegetation scattered with intermittent small shrubs and bushes. But as we get to the Madura pass we have a pleasant surprise because as the road wound down a lovely view of the valley below.

We are now driving between the Hampton Tablelands defined by the longest sandstone ridge we have ever seen on one side and the never ending flat Roe Plains on the other. There are also a few more trees with bushy canopies that shimmer silvery green in the sunlight.

We take on board more fuel at Eucla (it has its own time zone) and continue on across the Nullurbor and there are now definitely no trees. We make another stop at the Bunda Cliffs that run along the Nullurbor for 200kms, the longest sea cliffs in the world. We stop and stroll along the walkway to the lookout over the spectacular 90m high cliffs and find a film crew recording a scene for a TV series called Upright that will hit the screens next year.

We stand a while and watch the large waves below crashing against the high cliffs in the sun before moving on.

We thought we stop at the Head of the Bight but found a gate across the road. There is a whale centre here for the Southern Right whale and access to it and the Bight closes as 40pm and we had missed by 2 hours.

It's now getting late and we need to find somewhere to stop for the night and find a rest area around 8pm. We have dinner and realise we're tired and find it's not surprising as we've been driving for 11 hours and driven between three time zones: Western Australia/Eucla/South Australia.

Saturday 2nd December 2018 - We continued across the Nullurbor and stop at Penong known for its windmills to refuel. As we leave town the landscape is different again as we are now surrounded by endless fields of wheat.

Next stop is at the quarantine station and with the all clear we continue into Ceduna where we are stopping for the night to take a break from driving and re-stock before heading down the Eyre Peninsula tomorrow.