Streaky Bay SA

Today we officially completed our second epic crossing of the Nullarbor Plain. Strangely it seemed a lot quicker this time.

Contrary to common belief, the ‘treeless plain’ is actually quite short (no more than 100km) and only in SA. However, the full Nullarbor experience is understood to be the ‘nothingness’ between Ceduna SA and Norseman WA.

We suffered our most expensive fuel so far and encountered several slow vehicles and oversized loads with some interesting passing experiences. At one point we even spotted a guy walking the Nullarbor for mental health. An admiral cause and credit to him but surely that in itself would send you crazy. 😝

We passed through another quarantine checkpoint as we approached Ceduna. We had been surprised at the ‘no requirement to stop’ upon re-entering SA from WA. Makes sense they let us keep our fresh food for the Nullarbor and only have to dump it once returning to civilisation - not that we had any food to declare or dump - the boys had already eaten it all!

A welcome change of scenery as we left the Eyre Highway at Ceduna and headed south towards the Eyre Peninsula with its picturesque farmland and backdrop of clear blue water.

Tonight we’re at the Islands Caravan Park, Streaky Bay. It’s a fantastic set up, just out of town with generous sized private tree-lined sites overlooking the beach.

Exploring around town we saw two people snag decent sized sharks while fishing off the jetty - from the swimming enclosure no less 😳. That was our cue to retreat to the Streaky Bay Hotel for an early dinner and congratulate ourselves for successfully completing a double crossing of the Nullarbor.

Fun fact: Lachie has developed a remarkable skill of spotting oncoming vehicles at a distance. While Anthony and I struggle to determine if it’s coming or going, Lachie has already correctly identified the make and model of both car and caravan, or the number of trailers attached to a roadtrain. He can even pick the difference between a Landcruiser, Ram, Chevy or Ford F Series up to half a kilometre away! #lifeskill 😜もっと詳しく