Up the guts with Baby guts

My mum had asked me what I had thought of the Nullarbor Plain. I had in fact crossed it already and was about to cross it again. For those who don’t know the distance from Melbourne (east Coast) to Perth (West coast) is about 3500km. That distance is a whole lot of unique landscape, with ocean on your left and sparse land on your right. The section in South Australia to Western Australia is known as the Nullarbor Plain.

It is here you get to experience long road stretches, no shops and fuel every 100-200 km in distance. In fact, these fuel stops are also the Motel, the Town, the post Office, the supermarket, and everything else all under one roof. Here you get to buy Diesel Fuel at $2.94 a litre, which hurts when you have two 90 Litre tanks, and $5.95 for a coke. When you ask if you have bread, it comes frozen. It's not like you have a lot of choice, the next town will be 100km away and it will have the same items and the same cost. But they are the lifeline of this trip. Without there overpriced, poorly stocked place with souvenirs, you are in a world of trouble.

Let me paint you a picture, you leave Ceduna in Adelaide and head West, and your next location that has more than a petrol station is 1400km away. (See attached).

In fact, there is a stretch of road that is 150km long that is completely straight, no corners no curves. Great for overtaking caravans and triple truck rain trains.

Now this time, we travelled from West to East, after trying to escape the storms that we left in Esperance, (no avail). We travelled 1400km in two days, (videos attached) and moved from storm cell to storm cell, with wiper blades on full speed and then nothing 15 minutes later and repeat. So, I take it back mum, if there are storms, and the lighting is right, then it was a load of fun. Road was quiet as well as we left at 7am as we not only had a 7 hr 30-minute drive but would lose 2hrs 30 in time zones. We did it 6hrs 30, it would have been 6 hrs if the cop hadn't pulled me over as I then looked at my speedo for the next 400 km trying to stay below 120km. Besides the distance we crossed three time zones, I told Aslan don't even look at the clock, some towns are 3 hrs behind Melbourne, some 2.5 some 2hrs 15. So, I told him set it for Adelaide time and use that as a base.

It was here I got my first speeding ticket on the Western Australia side. I was clocked at 128km in a 110km zone, which I must have slowed down to not hit a bird because I was sitting on 140 most of the time. The cop pulled me over, and said we remember your car from a few weeks ago, I said it’s hard to miss it. He was a nice guy gave me the benefit of the doubt and I got a $100 fine and no demerit points. After I had just filled up the car for $340 in fuel, some car snacks for $60, $100 seemed rather cheap for a speeding fine. Aslan had a good laugh about it. We were to camp on Bunda cliffs again but having been stuck in the car the night before in the storm, the thought of another storm and getting wet having a piss every time didn't excite me, so we fanged it to a town called Penong in South Australia, where I found a cottage for 2 nights. From here we head to Ceduna/Port Augusta then Adelaide. Czytaj więcej