Day 45 – The Great Australian Bight
Packed and left our camp. Drove through heavy fog. Felt sad about this and our prospects of spotting a whale, but we stopped at the Great Australian Bight anyway.
Magically, the fog lifted and we saw a whale! At first we thought it was a small reef, until it blew a bunch of water out of its spout.
I promise that there is a whale at the centre of this picture. Most likely a pregnant Southern Right whale. Regardless, we were pretty excited about it.
Then we drove and drove. Back across the Nullabor! It is enormous, basically an area the size of Victoria with hardly a plant taller than your waist. Australia is too damn big.
Got coffee and petrol right before the WA border quarantine stop. The petrol was expensive and the coffee was bad, so I now don’t like SA any more. Sorry, SA, you let us down there right at the end. Then we surrendered the couple of bits of fruit and veg that are proscribed, cut the tops off all our carrots, and drove on into WA. The weather was immediately 200% better, colours were brighter, and food tasted nicer.
We lunched at Eucla, then pushed on a fair way to a free camp site near Madura called Moodini Bluff. Fair but of rubbish about – bloody humans! – but a nice place all the same. A long, 500+ km day on the road. Tomorrow, we might stroll up to the nearby bluff to look at the view.