The Nullarbor Crossing - Day 1

Australia’s great road journey’s, one of the world’s great drives.
The 2695km drive between Adelaide and Perth. The lions share of the drive takes place on the Eyre Highway (which starts at Port Augusta ) but the most famous section extends from Ceduna to Norseman - a whopping 1200km of featureless plains and dramatic cliffs, most often simply called “the Nullarbor “.
Mostly people travel East to West from Mount Aug to Perth, us we do the opposite, of course we do!

Day 1 - Esperance to Fraser Range Station Nullarbor 308km

Glad to leave Esperance but glad to have the opportunity to get jobs done eg change two more belts, water, food , battery’s, washing, Billy’s food! Service was done in Albany with the wheel alignment.

More or less one straight sealed road to Fraser Range Station, took us about 5hrs stopping at Norseman, a historic gold mining town and WA gateway to the Nullarbor.

Entering the station via a red dirt track through bush , it opens up to an oasis for the adventurers!
Fraser station 660 thousand acres of land, they rear cattle , it’s that big they find the cattle by helicopter then lorry the holding pen to where the cattle are, you can’t get your head around the scale of this place, putting it into perspective if you turn right out his place and travel 200km it’s still his land , if you go straight and travel 150km it’s still his land.
The owner Ben Foley use to work on the station as an apprentice, years on the owners put the station up for sale and between him, his father and brother purchased the land for 2 million dollars, since then he’s brought out his brother and father.

Breaking down on the Nullarbor isn’t an option, your pretty f…ed. No phone service just SOS. Pretty quickly into the journey just like the Great Northern HWay, each passing vehicle greets you with the two finger hello, part of me would like to believe fellow adventures travelling this journey would be as friendly in their everyday life not just when we may be faced being stranded? Thankfully we found out at the start of the crossing by staying at Fraser Range, that Ben has the equipment to rescue broken down travellers, while we were there a caravan and 4x4 came in on the back of a truck, you suddenly get that reality check!
Two horse trucks pulled in after we set up camp , Ben also offers the facilities for people travelling with horses , secure pens placed around the station for owners to secure their horses overnight.
The sunsets behind the windmill over the bush a still glow of reds and oranges.Læs mere