Farewell to WA, hello Nullarbor!

So before we left WA we had already driven a long way up North, then we basically drove from Perth to Brisbane via Adelaide, which for the uneducated is the entire breadth of Australia and the Nullarbor was a long section of it with nothing to see. We were told at an information centre that "Nullarbor" was an aboriginal word and that they didn't know what it meant. But we have since discovered that it comes from Latin "nullus arbor" which means NO TREES! So imagine driving all day long for 5 days, dawn to dusk and seeing NOTHING - that was our trip!

There is about 5 Royal Flying Doctors Emergency Landing strips on the actual highway.

Strangely enough, this was one of the places in Aussie where we didn't see alot of roos as roadkill. When we drove up to Exmouth, WA there was a roo every 10 metres for 1000kms!

To deter boredom and falling asleep at the wheel we skipped every 100kms! Thanks to my sister for our Christmas pressie!

Norseman, the final gas stop before heading onto that eternal straight road.

The longest section of straight road in Australia is between WA and SA. But we might add that it is straight for several thousand kms with very small bends in the road, extremely boring to drive on, and nothing to see!

Michelle at the top of Frenchman's Peak.

Frenchman's Peak in the rain.

Dave wishing he had a fishing rod!

The Southern Ocean from Frenchman's Peak.

This was our last adventure in WA, we stopped in beautiful Esperance and climbed Frenchman's Peak and this was our view.