I am currently sitting in Horsham (Victoria) and I will be doing this post in a day by day form as we did a lot and I need to keep tract how and when we got where.
Lets start at
Friday (week5) we left to for Esperance stayed at Kundip Rest Area. It was a scary place at night but very interesting and historical in the morning when we walked around, but more on that on "Hassie Adventure Spots". Worked from 07:00 - 13:00 and drove 310km about 3 hours drive!
Saturday to Tuesday we stayed in Esperance, had a each day, drove around and enjoyed the weather. Since Albany is always raining the sunny weather was welcomed with open arms. The reason we stayed in Esperance for 3 night and not just drive through everything like we did, was because E ordered a manual for Van Gogh and they said it will be deliver after the weekend (this weekend was a long weekend so Post office only opened on Tuesday) so we didn't rush Esperance. I will be doing a "Hassie Adventure Spot" too. Keep an eye out!!
Tuesday came and E and I hVe been talking about this trip non stop, guess you can say we are just a little exited for the drive ahead and to feel like we are actually traveling around Australia. We went to the post office, expecting our parcel. They informed us that the post only just got the delivered and that we should only return tomorrow after they sort out everything to see if it actually got the delivered to Esperance Post Office. I was feeling annoyed that we have to wait around another day, E was furious. He rung the place we ordered it from to see if we can track it and then spend 15min on the phone with Australian Post who then told him since Esperance is a Rural town it will only be there Friday/Monday. We asked for express post thinking it will be next day delivery but since it was a public holiday we had ti wait till the post office opened again on Tuesday. Tuesday came and then finding out that express post doesn't work for rural towns was something we didn't expect nor were we informed until we actually inquired.
Either way after having lunch we took the road to South Australia. We drove 383km and stopped at a rest area somewhere on the Nallarbor before Balladonia.
Wednesday we drove on and did 563km, stopped at the "town" Just before the Western Australian and South Australia border -Eucla. Now the towns we came across was really only a roadhouse, motel, cafe and gas station all in one! Clever since that's really all people want when they are driving on the Nallarbor. The reason we stopped before the border was to use all our fresh veggies and fruit up since WA and SA have such struck rules on the fruit fly. So made stir fry with all our veggies and almost 2 oranges each and knew we still had to try and finish a whole bag! We also had a time change Eucla is 45min before Perth, and then there would be a other at the border (20km away), not that it actually made a difference. Kind of silly if you ask me, Eucla might as well have stayed on Perth time and only left the time change at the border.
I almost for got that we actually got the drive the straightest road in Australia - 90 Miles or 149km.
Thursday we woke up early took our time had breakfast, tea and a few oranges (still didn't finish the bag). We ended up leaving our oranges in the campers kitchen hoping someone might eat it, in stead of us throwing it away and letting it waste!
Ready for another long day of driving. 20km away we hit the border, no one stopping us to check for fruit or veg, nothing!! I was fairly annoyed that no one cared to tell us that when you drive out of WA the quarantine check is only in Ceduna, quite a few km away, we could have bad a few more oranges on the road!!!
We did quite a few things on the road on this day!
- saw one of the BIG things in Australia
- crosse the border
- drove the Nallarbor Plain dessert
- saw the famous Australian road sign
- whale at the Nallarbor gas station
- the actual went thru quarantine
- stopped in middle of Australia and took a photo
- drove at night and our lights stopped working
- And drove a whopping total of 904km in one day!!!
Today (Friday) another big day, we drove 736km, drove thru Adelaide CBD, crossed the South Australia and Victoria border, had a time change (now 3 hours in front of Perth) and ended pooped in the van doing this blog!
Hopefully not to far till Melbourne then a few days to enjoy the city life.
Total:
- Km driven this week: 2925
- Places of interest:
- Kundip Heritage Trail
- Twilight Beach
- Cape Le Grand National Park
- 90 Mile straight roan in Australia
- Big whale in Eucla
- Nallarbor plain dessert
- Kimba (middle of Australia)
- Paid Accommodation:
- Pink Lake Tourist Park (Esperance) $35
- Cape Le Grand National Park (Esperance) $9 pp
- Eucla Caravan Park (Eucla) $15
- Wimmera Lakes Caravan Park (Horsham) $24
- $$ Spent: $651.34 (excluding gas)
- Gas:
- Litres - 385.13L
- $ - $651.21
- Places -
- Esperance
- Norsman
- Balladonia
- Caiguna
- Madura
- Eucla
- Nallarbor
- Nundroo
- Ceduna
- Wudinna
- Port Augusta
- Adelaide
- Tintinary
- Horsham
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