West to East.

Changing weather as we move eastward from Kalgoorlie-Boulder into SA. Some days cold, some bright & sunny for a winter’s day. Sometimes all of the above in one day. The Golfields region is not desert but it is arid, so it’s strange after so long to have mornings with very heavy dew.
We have intermittent rain. Some nights it’s bitterly cold, some days the jumper and beanie stay on.

It’s not very cold when we find ourselves back at one of our favourite sites: Peg 52, on the Nullabor overlooking the Southern Ocean. It is one of those nights when a fire would cap things off. But, in anticipation of the ban on transporting many things at the border quarantine station we used all our wood last night. We know that Nullabor means no trees Right? No fire.

A couple of fun side trips. A visit to just a couple of the thousands of caves throughout the karst for which the Nullabor is famous. Cocklebiddy and Madura Caves. The former Is a celebrity among caves wth the record cave diving penetration @ 6.24klm requiring lots of specialised equipment. Only need a torch for the latter to access kilometres of cave exploring fun. Standing above the entrance, we may have been the tallest things from here to the horizon.

Even more fun - a visit to the Marine Sanctuary at The Head of the Bight, where there are more than a dozen Southern Wright mother & calf pairs just off the point and more in the visible distance. Sharp eyes on the video will see one white(grey) calf.

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