Roadhouse Camping @ Cocklebiddy

We hung up our hat, so to speak, at Cocklebiddy tonight.

This is a much smaller roadhouse. Nonetheless, it has pretty much everything the Nullarbor Roadhouse offers.

Same set up — electric only; empty the grey water into the soil; no dump point for black water. The cell signal is only 3G. Good enough for social media, but frustratingly slow for online research needs!

Oh, how spoiled we all are when it comes to our connectivity. No worries, we’ll be in a town tomorrow and service should improve. In the meantime, we managed to verify that the campground where we want to stay tomorrow night has a spot for us, so all’s good.

One more difference from yesterday’s caravan park. This one has a tree. Just one. But we were glad to snap up the site where it stands. With the temp reaching 104F today, even the tiniest bit of shade was welcome.

Things are heating up now that we are away from the coast. Methinks an early start may be a good idea tomorrow. We’ll see.

Oh, and with all the time changes, sunset tonight was around 6:30p. Two and a half hours earlier than yesterday.

Very confusing time changes, by the way. A tiny bit of Western Australia is UTC +8 hours and 45 minutes. And they don’t follow DST. Twenty minutes from here, we lose the 45 minutes to go on Perth time, which is UTC +8 … again, no DST. Not only is my brain confused, so is my phone, as it doesn’t recognize the special time zone we’re in!Read more