With the sun shinning and the wind a little cool we prepared to leave Kalgoorlie and head down to Norseman and then start our journey along the Eyre Highway to Adelaide.
Leaving the caravan park at 8.30 we set Tom Tom for Norseman which took us a different way this time by not going through Coolgardie which we did coming up. The country side was much the same mostly scrub and general bush. With so little rain fall in this part of the country there are no crops or live stock. This is mining land with many roads leading off from the highway to the various gold mines and nickel smelters. Driving through Kambalda we pasted Lake Lefroy a dried up salt lake.
After 206km we arrived at Norseman where we stopped to have our lunch take a few photos of the tin camels and visit the tourist information office to pick up our free map with all the fuel stops and places to stay overnight during our 1979 km drive across the Nullarbor. We had marked the places for the clock changes and where we would have to pass through the quarantine check point in South Australia. We would have to ensure we had eaten all our fruit and veg's otherwise we’ll have to dump it all before continuing our journey.
Having filled up with fuel and filled an extra 20ltrs in our jerry can we set off east.
Tom Tom was set and indicated that we should drive along the Eyre highway and after 1198 kms turn left!
Our first stop after 188 kms was at Balladonia hotel/motel/roadhouse to fill with fuel again and have a stretch and a walk around. Not much here at all so after a short break we pulled out and not long after passing the old ruined Telegraph Station and the Afgan rocks we started to drive on Australia's longest stretch of roadway-145kms ( 90 miles). Since leaving Norseman we haven’t had to negotiate any stop , give way signs or traffic lights. In fact the drive is non stop unless you pull over for a rest or fuel.
Just at the end of the straight stretch we pulled into the Caiguna road house for a fuel fill up and to stop for the night at a powered site as it was going to be cold and we also wanted some hot food, heater and hot showers before setting off again in the morning.
During the evening we saw a light plane land right behind us and then taxi back to the rear of the roadhouse to fill up with aviation fuel before taxing out to the runway and taking off again. During our drive we had driven along a stretch of road that is also used by the Royal Flying Doctor in emergencies as this is all very remote country.
With a little light rain falling and a cool wind blowing we settled down for the night along with another 12 caravans parked by the Caiguna roadhouse.
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