The outback adventures of Smash and Trundle
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. … Read More »
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 … Read More »
First thing was get up and get to the tyre place and cross our fingers that the puncture was repairable and we didn’t have to buy a new tyre to replace the brand new one we had just bought! And … Read More »
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 … Read More »
Today was a fairly uneventful driving day! We started out from the campsite at sunrise and met Matt the ranger on our way out, who was a very chatty and lovely Welsh fellow who gave us some great recommendations for … Read More »
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 … Read More »
Monday morning and we were all go go go to try organise a replacement hire car whilst the Renault was out of action as Exmouth was wearing a bit thin for us. The mechanic called and said he’d discovered that … Read More »
Our final morning in Broome was spent at Sarah and Peter’s lovely guesthouse cleaning and packing our things in to the car. We had a lovely coffee with Sarah in the main house before heading off and chatted about our … Read More »
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 … Read More »
Once everyone was packed and ready to go, we started the slow and steady drive down south to the Bungle Bungle turn off in convoy with the boys. The stops for smoko and topping up cold bottled water were actually … Read More »