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Im afraid this blog was really interesting, twice, however the computers i chose to use.. chose to break on me, twice... so i'll try again...
We'll after leaving Adelaide on Boxing Day, we begun the big trip accross the Nullabour.
The first day was hot, and Dave drove lots! We aventually reached our first resting point for the night in a gravel'd area out the back of a motel on the side of the freeway. The next day we were woken by the sun beaming through our tent at 5.30am, so we got up and begun the big day of the WA border and the Great Australian Bight. That was amazing. It truely looked like a chunk had been bitten out the side of the cliffs. I was more impressed here than i was with The Great Ocean Road. The flat horizon just drops into the crashing ocean. I thought it was amazing you were allowed to go to the very edge. Dave kept on grabbing me to pull me back before the ground beneath me collapsed!
We continued on in the agonising heat - as all those who know Dave, will understand when i say we were not allowed to have the air conditioning on... 'costs too much fuel'. So i had to occasionally remind Dave that i am a Pom and my pale skin cant handle this heat... so finally we would occasionally have the Air Conditioning on... but not without comments of wasting petrol!
After our second night, we headed on early to make good time, and after only a few hundred metres, we were welcomed by 'Death Valley'. At least every 10m there were dead, mangled and half eated kangeroos. The road trains come through at night and wont stop for anything, so the raod was covered in fresh road kill from the night before. With bodies on one side and heads on the other side of the road wasn't the prettiest of journeys so far. We talked about whether it was wrong to take pictures of such torchured views ahead.... and decided we'd better pass on the opportuity!
After repeatative tree shrubs, mangled road kill, long flat roads, and sleeping in the petrol station's 'back yards'... we finally made it to the other side of the Nullabour and headed straight up to Kalgoorlie.
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