Day 6, Part 1....
it's hot, hot, hot and windy. 43 degree on the Nullaboor. Check the dust, and guess who didn't close the caravan window properly... Opps.

Day 6, Part 2....
Camped on the edge of the great Australian Bight, no drone footage unfortunately, the wind went from blowy to crazy overnight, so a quick pack up and out towards WA this morning.

Day 6, Part 3....
Koonalda Homestead was a sheep station from 1938 to 1988 and provided fuel and services to people traveling along the then Eyre Highway until the highway was rerouted and sealed closer to the coast in the early 1970's.
Water was pumped from the cave, but when the cave collapsed it was no longer viable as a sheep station either and thus abandoned.
Pictures of the old Homestead made from railway sleepers, cars from the 1930s to 1970s that didn't make it to their destination, shearing shed and collapsed cave.

Day 6, Part 4....
No idea what time it is!
Phones changed to Perth time whilst we were still in SA (+8 hours), Melbourne time in the car (+10 hours +1 hour DST) real SA time is (9.5 hours +1 DST) and now we are in Eucla the real time is (+9.45 hours)... Yes! Eucla and Border Village have their own time!

Day 7, getting confused what day is what now... Eucla to Balladonia Roadhouse.
Visited Madura Caves and went scavenging for 15 million year old shells in a gravel pit!

Day 8, Balladonia to Membinup Beach via Esperance.
Balladonia Roadhouse has a great display of when parts of Skylab fell close by when it crashed back to earth in 79.

Day 9, morning walk along the beach, overcast but warmish.
First time I have noticed that our setup is all colour coordinated 🙂
Trip into Esperance for supplies and then a drive along the beach to take the dogs for a run. It gets windy in the afternoon!

Day 10, we are still free camping at Membinup Beach, today we cut across along a very narrow track to Orleans Bay and Wharton bay.

Day 11, Blown suspension airbag!I replaced them before we left just to play it safe, now waiting for the old ones I took off to arrive to put them back on again..
It was quite the adventure to make it back to camp

Day 17, Back on the road!

Day 18, A short drive along the Esperance coast, an amazing coastline.

Day 19, Munglinup Beach.

Day 22, Wave Rock, Hippo rock and salt lake circuit

Day 23, Wave Rock to 50kms shy of Balladonia.
Found hand prints in a cave, a fence, a pub, another Wave Rock, climbed a rock, drove 620kms 500 which were unsealed ....

Day 24, Great Australian Bight... Sitting on the edge of Australia watching a storm roll through. Dinner cooked in anticipation of a downpour.

Day 25, i haven't seen a dingo yet so improvised, old Eyre Hwy, another reptile that I narrowly avoided, a monument in the middle of friggin nowhere marking the joining of the Indian Pacific....

Day 26, Maralinga!

Day 29, Home again...