Bight Me

Happy travellers and Killer the pig dog

We stopped three nights  whilst travelling across the Great Australian Bight from east of Ceduna in SA to Kambalda in WA. This is a long and at times boring drive across the treeless Nullarbor Plains and through scrubby country at either end -  145.6 km without a bend in one section.

 

 

 

 

The section of road that follows the coastline at the start of the Great Australian Bight is by far the most picturesque with those much photographed cliffs and bright blue southern ocean.

Post card stuff!

 We stopped once to view the spectacular sights of the Bight and stayed overnight at the 13km Peg Camp site (by coincidence just 13km east of the WA borderJ). 

 

 

 

 

 

 

on the SA/WA border looking south

Once again we were hounded by strong winds but found a spot where we could light a fire to keep warm.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now for a whinge – I now know what SA stands for – it’s SHIT AMMENITIES. 95% of the SA roadside camp sites that we stopped at for a cuppa and occasionally stayed (including those coming down from Alice Springs) do not have toilets or well serviced rubbish points. You pull up at a scenic location only to find every tree, bush and vacant piece of ground covered in toilet paper and rubbish. It’s a brave person who wanders from the camp area as the risk of stumbling onto the dreaded “brown log” is extremely high.  Contrasting this – as soon as we were over the WA border we found camps that had eco toilets, lots and lots of bins, even a couple with dump points and therefore were much cleaner.  I’m not saying all WA roadside camps are like this but most are 100 times better than the SA sites.

The SA Government needs to seriously do something about these sites as it’s the only state we have travelled in that has such poor and dirty facilities. I have logged onto the SA Government web site and put in a complaint – if you too have travelled in SA and found the road side stops below par lodge a complaint on the website http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/About_Us/Provide_feedback and perhaps they may do something about it?