Day 12: Delightful morning waking up and not having to get up and pack the van. Beautiful sparkling day, a bit fresh but it will do. Had great plans of going on a Superpit tour, although we did one 7 years ago it was only the one hour tour and it was pouring rain so could not see a great deal except the massive size. Wally went online and all booked out today and tomorrow and Thursday is supposed to be yuk weather wise but we booked for a 2.5 hour tour with a...

Day 11: A night of a diesel generator going all night and I do remember that from seven years ago but we were all up and gone by 8 am. Balladonia is just a stopover point for everyone it seems. It was an uneventful 200 kms to Norseman …. The end of the Nullarbor…..yayyyyyyy. The area is classed the western woodland area and so just 200 kms of woodland, couldn't even play 'eye spy'. The day fairly cloudy and bleak so not interesting. Norseman is fairly sa...

Day 10: Horse neighing outside our van woke us this morning rather than kookaburras - much more peaceful sound for an alarm clock. Still windy but a bit of a different direction. Gone by 7:45 and on the road and down onto the plains below Eucla for a long day in the saddle. Behind sure does go numb after a while. Stopped at Madura Pass for morning tea, this is where we headed back onto the plateau but we did get into trouble where we parked our van. Only sp...

Day 9: Well what a night that was. Wild winds and torrential rain and the most long lasting loud thunder I think I have ever heard. Radio reports this morning said there were reports of earth tremors in the Eyre Peninsula but they put it down to thunder. I thought it was due to the flat arid area it just rumbled and bumbled for such a long time at full blast. The lightening was a blast thru our brain cells and eye balls so we were awake a lot. Morning cam...

Day 8: We have decided our new occupation in life: to go where required to break the drought. Third time I have been on the Nullarbor and third time of rain. We had horrendous sideway winds on leaving Wudinna and this seriously affects the fuel consumption. Not terribly pleasant at all. So, on leaving Cedunna we asked Sam the directions to Kalgoorlie, our next big stop. Turn left in 1198 kms - so there is the Nullarbor, straight roads for ever. We did pul...