Norseman to Ceduna (Nullarbor)

In a country where they just don't do small the Nullarbor Plain manages to take it a step further. 

It’s often called the Nullar-boring, and as there isn’t much growing on this dried up ancient seabed, you can probably imagine why. The Nullarbor is officially the earth's largest piece of limestone. From Norseman we had a 1200 km drive ahead of us to Ceduna.

We weren’t really looking forward to the drive but hey, it had to be done. Along the way we had some toilet and fuel stops at the occasional roadhouse, we stopped at some lookouts and points of interests (the ruins of the old telegraph station for example). 

Ironically on the second day, exactly on the WA and SA border our car broke down. Of all places it had to happen here! We decided to call the RACV (wegenwacht). All was a bit confusing at first as we were on the border, so they had to figure out from which state they could get us some help. 

Then it turned out that their nearest mechanic was busy with another job 400 km away. 

They could offer us a tow service to a tiny 'town' (*read; roadhosue) about 250 km away, but although we had the expensive total care insurance, only 100 km towing would be paid for by the RACV. As there still wasn’t a mechanic in that town it wouldn’t help us either. In the end the RACV was very helpful and they really did their best to find a solution for us.

At some point they managed to find another local mechanic who suddenly turned up. He and Sander managed to find a solution to the problem and ‘fixed’ it together. After being stuck for half a day we could finally move on! Yay!

Without too much trouble we made it to Ceduna in the east. The Bunda Cliffs along the way were definitely the highlight of the drive, especially as we found a great spot to camp that second day. After a shitty day (because of the problems with our car) we watched an amazing sunset on top of a cliff. Spectacular!

I must say we were relieved to arrive in Ceduna in the late afternoon of the third day. The car didn’t have any further issues which we were very happy about. We found a lovely caravan park just out of town and enjoyed a refreshing shower and a beautiful sunset once again.