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5 Dec

Day 117 – Nullarbor: Bunda Cliffs to Hancocks Lookout

Last day on the Nullarbor! It was a lot quicker and less painful than we had anticipated, which was nice. Nullarbor translated means no trees, and the Nullarbor Plain is exactly that. Well lots of scrub. But definitely no trees....
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4 Dec

Day 116 – Nullarbor, Norseman to Bunda Cliffs

First day on the Nullarbor! Feels good! Pretty intensely straight roads right from the start – then we hit the 90 Mile Straight. 146km of dead straight road, the longest straight stretch in Australia. That was straight. Very...
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3 Dec

Day 101-115 – South West Region

Just a post to give a quick sum up of the week and a bit spent in the beautiful Margaret River region and surrounds with our respective lads which was awesome! Trundle and Finn took the Renault and Smash and...
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16 Nov

Day 98 – Inside Australia at Lake Ballard

From Lake Douglas we headed off back through Kalgoorlie and started on the road out to Menzies to fuel up at their self serve 24 hour fuel stop at the abandoned road house with all the number plates stapled up...
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13 Nov

Day 95 – Heading south from Geraldton

Another windy morning when we woke up at the lovely Waminda Wildlife Sanctuary! However it was a good alarm clock to get us up in time to feed the animals with Jennifer again first thing in the morning. Smash got...
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8 Nov

Day 90 – The Blowholes to Hamelin’s Pool

Our morning alarm was the sound of road trains roaring past the highway, but we were keen for an early start anyway so got straight on the road to the Blowholes – a spot north of Carnavon where the King...
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31 Oct

Day 82 – Driving Tom Price to Exmouth

Another 5am wake up call for Trundle (unintentional – just couldn’t get back to sleep!) to watch the sunrise from the RIP lookout over the nearby mountain range, which was spectacular. It was eerily that it was so quiet yet...
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30 Oct

Day 81 – Karijini and car issues

We left for Weano Gorge from the campground in the park, which we had been told was a sealed road but turned in to graded dirt after the turnoff – however it was very smooth going for the most part!...
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19 Oct

Day 70 – One Arm Point at Cape Leveque

I had set my alarm for 5am to get up and go for a walk around the eastern side of the beach to catch the sun rising over the water across the King Sound, which was well worth the early...
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18 Oct

Day 69 – Kooljaman at Cape Leveque

And we are off on the road to Cape Leveque! Via the Broome markets to get a smoothie. And Woolies to get prawns. And the bottle shop for beer. All the necessities. The road out there was definitely not 2WD...
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