Nullarbor Plain

 

Nullarbor Plain

When we arrived in Ceduna, first it was groceries, then Din was feeling a bit worn out, so off we went back out of town for a bit and found a suitable camp site. Good enough for anovernighter, we would be back into town in the morning to finish resupplying and fueling up.

That night, as always latly, when we have phone signal, I checked the WA border website to see if we could cross any time soon. The status of SA came up as green, good to go.

Next morning it was an early start and back into town to finish off fuel, water, and any little thing we might need.

On to the web again and filled our border passes as required and in a matter of minuets we had our applications accepted and were good to go.

Our plan at the beginning was to lesurly drive the Nullarbor and detour off to the coastline where ever possible. Covid now dictated our plans, so, as the status of the state could change at any time, we would have to get to the border and cross while we could. 479K from Ceduna to Border Village, where the border is. Some could do it in about five hours, we were going to take four, days. I had stated the date on our pass and it was approved, so off we went.

We left Ceduna late and travelled about 70k to Penong, then another 15 or so to Port Le Hunte on the coast. A lovely drive in, passing on a causeway where the water on the left was typical sea water colour, though the shallow water on the right was a distinct pink.

At the end of the road was a nice area with a jetty and shark net enclosure, also a n undercover area with tables and some boards telling of the local history.

A few ks back down the road was a camp area where you could camp for $15 each person per night. Too many others camped up so decided to head back to the highway and find another camp site, which we did.

Next morning, back on the road. Head of the Bight was to be our next stop. There is a visiter centre there where for a small fee you can go down to the viewing area and search the ocean for whales. Being the time of year that the whales hang around here, we couldn’t pass up the chance to whale watch.

As we approached the boardwalk, dark shapes appeared from the depths. More than 10 whales were swimming around in the bay, some with calves by their side. They rest up here and feed up in preparation for the journey into the Southern Ocean in summer. How privileged we felt watching these magnificent huge creatures, gracefully passing by.