The Nullarbor Crossing - Day 2

Fraser Range Station to Caiguna Blowholes 242km & Australia’s longest straight road.

We woke to an amazing morning, sun shining and a beautiful cold nip in the air.
Down the red dirt track through bush to the end of the road and turn right and keep going.

Losing the phone service, the stops I’d planned were in the Wiki camps app! Note to self: write down stops when you have internet and stop having a blonde moment!
We knew we were heading to Balladonia because it’s one road , that-away! then onto Caiguna , Australia’s longest straight road but just didn’t know which stop we were supposed to be camping at! We had a paper map and knew that roadhouses are scattered along the Nullarbor so fuel , water would hopefully be available and we had extra onboard just incase, and maybe phone reception to figure out where we would be staying? If not Roadhouse or free camp which ever came first!

The landscape was Arid dessert woodland ( counted among the world’s oldest and most dense landscapes) dead trees scattered amongst the green trees and flora growing in the dessert floor. Split in two by the long black strip, as far as the eye could see.
Balladonia Roadhouse was so busy, I’ve never seen a Roadhouse so busy, fuel and ice and off we went, apparently space debris from Skylad landed 40km East on Woorlba sheep station.
Next stop should be Caiguna 181km! As you approach Caiguna the clock goes forward 45mins, even the latest model smartphone won't detect the Border timezone.
I’m the way you spot the emergency airstrip markings on the road used by the RFDS, coming the other way were two bikers literally flying hands free down the runway ( check the video out! )
Further along a honk of the horn was necessary for two guys on peddle bikes crossing the Nullarbor!
Road trains give you the lights of thanks as they pass as you slow down for them and a thank you on the CB!
As you clock the km’s the more you discover the lively social angle to crossing the Nullarbor but sadly the myth that caravan’s don’t like anybody was actually true! We passed 10 in a row and no two finger gestures we didn’t even get the opposite “victory”! Just stern faces looking into the distance!? Let’s hope fate doesn’t dish out the breakdown card!
Stopping at Woorlba rest area ( where the space lab debris landed at the sheep farm) Note: great overnight stop over for the future, space, trees for privacy, dump point , drop toilet.

Continuing on we approached Caiguna roadhouse, during the last hour Paul had kept expressing how straight the road was , no up or down just flat and straight , the penny still didn’t drop? As we pulled in for fuel , there it was? The famous sign! We’d been on Australia’s longest straight road all along!
Caiguna is at the eastern end of the 90 Mile Straight… 146.6km of arrow-straight road. Balladonia’s just west of the western end.
It’s the longest stretch of straight road in Australia and one of the longest in the world.

Late afternoon we pulled into Caiguna blowholes free camp, 5km back up the straight road.Læs mere