“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal” – Paulo Coelho

​For the first time in our trip we needed to drive some long days and cover about 500km each day. The saving grace was that we were driving East and the sun rises early so we didn’t have to drive into it for too long. We also had a nine hour audio book to listen to as we crossed three time zones!

After leaving Esperance and on the way to Eyre highway via Norseman we passed through an area called salmon gums but no salmon gums!

The Nullarbor plain is a the world’s largest limestone plain, covering 270,000 square kilometres – that’s the size of Tasmania! It’s name comes from the Latin words nulla, meaning ‘no’, and arbor, meaning ‘tree’. There are no towns or communities in this landscape and no permanent surface water. Along the Great Australian Bight the Bunda Cliffs extend 200kms, between Western Australia and the Head of the Great Australian Bight They are the southern edge of the limestone slab which forms the Nullarbor Plain and extends far inland.

Eucla is the last town in WA before Border Village which is the WA/SA border. We had completed the online form for entry into South Australia (SA) but there were no checks for those entering from WA. We free camped our way across the Nullarbor Plain over 3 days, the most spectacular of these campsites being perched on the plateau of the Bunda Cliffs where the limestone plain ends and drops vertically 100m into the Southern Ocean.