Cockabiddy to 13k Peg.

After a good nights sleep we left our campsite just east of Cockabiddy and continued east towards the W.A. Border. On the way we stopped at the Madura Pass Lookout. I have always been fascinated by this place. This is not a hill, it is a flat plain with another flat plain down the bottom of the pass. It is like the bottom half just dropped down. After driving down the pass you have a fairly high escarpment on your left which continues for 180ks till you climb up the Eucla pass where it finishes. Next we stopped at Mundrabilla Roadhouse where we once again topped up with fuel.
Mundrabilla Station is 1.7million acres and was the first sheep station on the Nullabor. Next stop was Eucla about 12ks from the border. We spent a bit of time here exploring. After a look around the roadhouse, we had lunch and drove down to the dunes to view the old Telegraph Station and the old jetty. The telegraph station operated between 1877 - 1927 before a new station was built on the then new, Trans Australian Railway and I can only assume that's when the jetty ceased to be used as well. It is about a one kilometre walk from the telegraph station to the jetty through the dunes and it wouldn't be hard to get lost. We read a revue on Wikicamps where a woman's husband went for a walk, got lost and turned up much later after walking about 8ks.
We left Eucla and after crossing the border had a little look around Border Village and then headed out to the 13k peg where we set up camp on the top of the cliff overlooking the Great Australian Bight and the vast Southern Ocean. This really was a great spot, windy, but we had a great view out of the caravan window.Weiterlesen