Heading Home

Finally heading west!

According to the SATNAV in the Pajero its 2,065klm from Haslam on the Eyre Peninsular in SA across the Nullarbor to Pinjarra in WA. We had planned to travel across to Norseman in convoy with our friends Carol and Steve for company and also security/back-up across the wide open spaces – this didn’t quiet go to plan as “someone” miscalculated the number of overnight stays (distance) between the WA border and Kambalda.

The Champs - 2016 Nullarbor Sequence Comp

Usually coming across the Nullarbor involves driving for 5-6 hours, selecting a roadside stop where you can get away from the traffic noise, getting a fire and diner organised, early to bed and doing the same thing the next day.

Roxy and her valets on the Bight

As “someone” miscalculated the distance to Kambalda (and we had made arrangements to catch up with family there) we did a marathon 11 hours and nearly 600lkm on one of the days – this is when we left our friends behind.

Some folk say driving across from Ceduna to Perth is a boring drive – we disagree – it’s quiet an interesting trip transiting from the rolling wheat and sheep farms near Ceduna, to the Mallee Scrub, onto the treeless Nullarbor, across the scenic Great Australian Bight, back into the Mallee and Salmon Gum forests of WA, through the vast cleared paddocks of the WA wheat belt into Perth.

Our last camp for this trip at Meckering WA

It’s an experience that we have enjoyed several times now and hope to do again.