Crossing the Nullarbor

We had been told lots of stories about the Nullarbor crossing so we decided that we had better be well prepared. We loaded the van with all the extra provisions that we might need for the 1200km journey. We bought extra jerry cans for fuel as we had been told that the prices can go as high as $3.00 a litre (usually about $1.25ish) and we didn’t want to be caught out having to pay the highest price to fill up. We filled our water tank to the brim and bought plenty of essential provisions like beer, chocolate éclairs and a small bottle of drinking water! We had also been told that the roadtrains would as good as run over you if you were in the way and just for good measure the drive was so boring you were bound to fall asleep at the wheel.

In truth we did need the extra fuel as this gave us a bit of a choice of where we filled up and we needed the beer and chocolate éclairs. The roadtrains were big but we managed to stay out of their way. The journey is not boring at all especially when you’re not driving! The countryside changes constantly and is not a flat boring plain all the time. In fact I thought it was quite stunning in places.

We stopped at the Head of the Bight to watch a few more whales and it was the best sighting that we have had and stopped again to take photos of the cliffs. We also stopped to take photos of the road signs! We spent the night at Madura Roadhouse but were up early the next morning to beat the rush hour traffic and to get to Norseman that day or at least that was the plan. We must be the only people to get caught in a traffic jam on the Nullarbor due to road works. Still we made it to Norseman in time to get our certificate saying that we had crossed the Nullarbor and to have a lunchtime beer. We are now in Western Australia.