27nd of February = Today we spent another day in Ceduna I filled up the truck and all the jerry cans ready for a Nullarbor crossing tomorrow. We called in to the fish Munga and purchased some flat head and some crab bait. We returned to the caravan park where we I borrowed the caravan parks crab nets and headed off to the jetty. The kids enjoyed it almost too much we ended up catching 9 crabs. We headed back to the caravan park where the park had great cleaning and cooking setup. As I entered the park a gentleman parked near the gate wondered how much I caught and offered to clean and cook them for me. Well after our afternoon tea I gave a couple of beers to old mate for his efforts and I went back out with the fishing rod and caught some squid. Old mate cleaned them up for me again and I cooked dinner that night with some homemade chips, fish and calamari.
28th 0f February = On the road for one of the biggest drives of the trip the Nullarbor. When we were planning the trip everyone told me don’t go clockwise as you will get a head wind crossing the Nullarbor. I was thinking how crazy people thinking wind can only blow one way and there is no way I was heading up to the top end in summer, well they were wrong I had 50kph tail winds and the temps didn’t get over 23 degrees for the whole trip. The patrol did it easy up and down hills. I sat on about 102km the whole way so I didn’t have to deal with trucks over taking me all the time. We had a few stops at lookouts over the bight with us struggling to stand and made it all the way to the border for quarantine seems weird having to hand over some potatoes and a jar of honey when we live in the same country. The kids were starting to become tired of being in the car so we pulled into Eucla and camped the night behind the roadhouse.
29th Of February = Eucla to where ever I can make it before the kids crack it. Almost uneventful day expect for a truck coming towards me who drifted off on his side of the road flicking up a rock the size of a fist hitting the windscreen first chip for the trip surprised it didn’t punch through must have hit at close to 200km made a huge noise. Today we completed the longest straight road in Oz and almost missed the end when all of a sudden there is a bend I started questioning is this the end or have I already gone around another bend but it was the end. We were trying to make it to Norseman But gave up when about 80km out we found a real nice free camp there must have been 20 cars parked there by night fall.
1st of March = We were going to go to Kalgoorlie but couldn’t put the kids through the 450km round trip to show them a big hole in the ground even though I would have liked to seen it I was also looking forward to relaxing by the beach. We Fuelled up at Norseman and headed south to Esperance where we booked ourselves into the local caravan park, picked some groceries and did some relaxing while the kids had some fun in the park.
2nd of March = Checked out the tourist info centre purchased a national park pass. I caught up with a couple that live near us that we met on the Nullarbor who got there a day early then us and he told us about a few things that he had done like 4wd down the beach and Sammy the seal at the jetty. We spent the afternoon walking down to the jetty and seeing Sammy the seal.
3rd of March = Headed off to see the national parks heading down to Cape Le grand. There is 2 ways down, 22km on the beach or 65km by tarmac so I went down and back by the beach this is an awesome place with crystal clear waves, with multiple islands in the back ground that look like something out of the world’s best tourist mags and some awesome rock for mason. We all enjoyed a swim before driving back where the girls both fell asleep so Kate and I enjoyed the peace and did the great ocean drive loop to the west of Esperance.
4th of March = Public Holiday weekend in Western Australia so Esperance had markets and a car show. We all walked down to the markets for a look around with Kate buying her usual bits and pieces before walking back to camp for some lunch where I left the Girls and headed to the local car show and shine to Look at a few old cars and new ones.
Cost for 10th week
Fuel = $559.67
Food = $340
Camping= $163
Tourist stuff and others = $197
The big Oyster Ceduna
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