Day 5: Streaky Bay to somewhere west of Eucla!
We're back on the road again. It was a relatively early start in Streaky Bay – a little sad to be leaving the sea side town today as the weather was at it's best yet. The water was a sheet of glass as you can see in the photo below.
Next stop Ceduna. Ceduna's about an 1 hour north west of Streaky Bay. It's a bigger place, but from our short visit it lacks the character of Streaky Bay. We took a walk along the jetty and saw some pretty cool birds. Now I know pigeons aren't exactly an endangered species but we were both struck with how massive these ones were … some (Pete and Tarz) might even say they they were Naz sized!! The photo doesn't quite do them justice so you'll just have to trust us on this one.
We were soon back on the road again and heading across the Nullabor. As you could imagine there's not a whole lot of change of scenery along the way, but yet again we were gobsmacked by the beauty. For miles you see nothing but saltbush and no trees, then you'll get a glimpse of some cliffs and the ocean.
We were pretty happy to make the stop at the most northern section of the Great Australian Bight. The admission fee of $12 a head seemed a little bit steep just to walk along the wooden walkway, but it was pretty spectacular to see the Souther Right Whales and their calves so close to the shore line. Unfortunately we missed seeing the white calves which were born a day or two ago, but nevertheless the black ones were pretty interesting too.
It's hard to get a great photo of them, but I think this will give you a good idea.
And this is just prove I get in the photos every now and again too. The photo doesn't do it justice, but the shoreline is just beautiful.
We finally crossed the border into WA just east of Eucla where we were stopped by quarantine and lost our veges which we'd planned to use for dinner tonight, but otherwise it was pretty uneventful.
Eucla itself was a worthwhile stop off. Highlights included the old Telegraph Post ruins and an old jetty. We also got to have a good chat to a retired couple who have done lots of travel around the country. It confirmed that we'd made some good choices with our travel plans but also highlighted that there will need to be many more trips to come.
Well, finally we have set up camp in a rest area somewhere west of Eucla. There's no power, no internet so I'm writing this blog via battery power on my laptop. Feels a little weird to be surrounded by nothing yet using this technology.
On that note, I shouldn't use too much more battery power up as we probably won't be at a powered site for some days now. No doubt I'll post this blog in a few days but thought I better put pen to paper before I forgot too much.
Nick's Wrap Up:
Glad we had: Frozen peas and couscus(after loosing our fresh vege at the border)
Wish we had: A bigger lens for the camera
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