This morning I got up and meandered about Port Augusta. After wandering about the shoreline and down town I decided Port Augusta would be a place someone who loves the smell of fish and rotting seaweed would be comfortable, I don't like either!

 Below is the southern most peak of the South Flinders range (Mt Brown) with a lenticulariform cloud draping it..... cool! That is the hill I came down from the Clare valley yesterday.

The next couple of shots are the northern most piece of Spencer Gulf at Port Augusta.

Leaving Port Augusta heading west!

Iron Knob, shrouded in low cloud, and rain.......

Kimba is in the middle of the SA wheat belt.

This stone monument to the Australian farmer stands aside the highway at Wudinna, where I stopped for lunch at the local bakery.... very nice sandwiches!

I spent a summer holiday working on a farm harvesting barley and oats not far from this town. I was 17 and didn't yet have a license, but still drove vehicles on the road! That summer was one of the hottest ever recorded in this region with day time temperatures getting to 49 degrees. It was too hot to do anything, a thermometer in front of the air conditioner in the house never got below 40, nothing was cool.... except me of course! We would go out about 10PM when the grain had cooled down enough not to crack when harvested, harvest all night till about 7AM when the grain got too hot, then drive truck loads into town until about 10 when it got too hot to drive... sleep as best as possible till 930PM and start over. There'd be some spastic government regulation about that now.. just like driving a truck without a license!!! It was a fun holiday of work. I can't recall the farmers sir name, but he was Ivan, and he was a big man with a huge beard and a temper befitting an Ivan!!

I arrived at Ceduna and contemplated stopping but it was relatively early so I went for a walk around the town and along the edge of Denial Bay before continuing. I was kinda G'd up about getting to the border.... I wanted to see Bordertown!

The Nullabor Links... I went to the information centre and the lady had no idea about it!! She couldn't find anything, she didn't know how to log onto their computer so couldn't look it up, and couldn't find a score card! I'll look at it from the other end!!

Denial Bay, quite pretty and a nice walk way along the edge in town.

Leaving Ceduna I came to Penong, this is the furthest West I've ever been before!!

Mulga scrub land getting closer to the Nullabor and past the line in the dirt where grains can be grown.

The beginnings of the Nullabor! Still some trees........

Sign says exactly what is coming next!!

As I travelled West on the NEW Eyre highway which travels closer to the coast I was keen to get a glimpse of the Bight! After all, it is a great Australian!!! The problem these days is that the highway travels through first; the Yalata Aboriginal Reserve, and second; the Nullabor National Park, and every old track heading south towards the Bight was closed off and locked up, or just too muddy to drive on. Finally I found a sign pointing south with a camera picture... so I went and took some pictures of the Great Australian Bight!

In the coloured circle and square below is my car to give some perspective of the size of these cliffs! HUGE!!! and with no beaches below you wouldn't want to fall off as there's no way anyone would know and even if they did there's no way of getting down there, no phone signal unless you have a satellite phone, and the nearest rescue service is hours away.... don't fall off!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I finally arrived at Bordertown, which is at the border, but isn't a town! I'm not too sure what the kangaroo holding a Solo stubbie is about

And the sign that says I'm now at the West Oz border, but there is one last hurdle... An incredibly judicious Asian man who takes his job of making sure you don't take any fruit or vegetables into WA very seriously. I had to get out of my car and open each door so he could have a look inside. When I opened my esky and he saw the lettuce, he said "gleen stuff must go" in a very strongly accented and authoritative way. Before I got out I asked what he would do if I refused to open my can, to which he said bluntly "you stay here till morning, see porice". So while I'm tossing my lettuce he stops another car, the lady driving addresses him by name, he tells her to "get out, open door" to which she replies, "name of man, I just came through here 20 minutes ago, I haven't been to Ceduna for some fruit you *&%$#^#$@&#%$*#% idiot"..I thought WOW, way to go..... But as I drove off she was getting out of her car and opening doors for him to look inside...... 

WOOHOO in WA at last and all excited.... until I looked at the map and discovered it's still a loooooong way to the west coast!

And here I am at Eucla about 12Kms inside WA where I'll spend tonight. Tomorrow I shall continue west and see where I end up!

957km. 

Driving west gives you more daylight, the sun actually set a whole hour later than yesterday, cool science! The men flying the worlds fastest spy plane in the 70's saw the sun rise 3 times in one day when traveling west.