5 nights on the Nullarbor Plain.

Get comfy, grab a cup of tea or glass of wine - there are lots of photos!!

Driving across the Nullarbor, from Norseman to Ceduna

Day 1- Saturday 11th February

• 444 kms
• 10.30am- 4.30pm
• Esperance to halfway along the '90 mile straight', with stops at Norseman and Balladonia Roadhouse
• Highlights: starting the 90 mile straight road, finding a peaceful, secluded campsite and watching the stars around a campfire.

We camped about halfway along the 90 mile straight.

Our campsite for the night - a secluded spot off the Nullarbor.

Sunset dinner at our bush campsite.

Day 2- Sunday 12th February

• 480kms
• 7.30am- 5.00pm (or somewhere close to 5pm, when we got close to Eucla there was a sign saying change to Australian Central Western Time which was apparently 45 mins less than changing to SA time- I was totally confused as our phones didn't change but we changed the car clock, so we were running on 2 different times whilst also preparing to cross in SA the next day and change the time again!!)
• Halfway along 90 mile straight road to Eucla Telegraph Station ruins.
• Highlights: the rescued eagles at Cocklebiddy Roadhouse, Madura Caves- seeing a death adder and a big colony of bats, digging for fossilised shells at an ancient inland sea, camping near the ruins of the old Eucla Telegraph Station.

At our first stop on Day 2, Madura Caves, Emilia spotted a Death Adder- we were all pretty excited to see it, as it's the first one we have seen in the wild.

Madura Caves- one of the many sink hole caves in the area. Emilia came down to the entrance to the cave but seeing the snake had scared her, so she didn't want to go any further! She stayed at the entrance on 'snake watch' while Daniel, Jackson and I crouched down and climbed through a hole into the caves- it was pretty amazing once we got inside.

Just before I climbed though the 1m2 hole to get into the cave.

Checking out some of the holes that went right up to the surface, it was so interesting (and a bit creepy) inside.

We discovered this big colony of bats - underneath them was SO much bat poo, so you could see where they'd moved from (as that had piles of poo too!).

The bats made such a noise and freaked us out when they flew off (they nearly flew right into Jackson and I).

In the second, smaller cave there were heaps of kangaroo skeletons. We suspected there was a flood and they all died in there. They were nearly mummified from the mud (they reminded me of the human remains I saw at Pompeii).

Some of the many skulls and jaw bones Jackson found scattered throughout the cave. The bright white one on the right side is a calf skull, with the skull not fully joined yet. Although macabre, it was extremely interesting looking at them all.

After the caves, we headed to an ancient inland sea paleontology dig. They have already cleared heaps of the dirt/soil and you can go through all their old piles and look for fossilised shells - there were SOOOO many, and we managed to find some impressive unbroken ones.

One of the soil walls that's been cut into- revealing shells from millions of years ago.

Eucla Roadhouse

The dusty playground at Eucla Roadhouse.

The old Telegraph Station is slowly being swallowed by the sand.

You can see how far the sand dunes have risen up the wall, I wonder how long it will be until the building is completely covered up.

The old Eucla jetty.

Day 3- Monday 13th February

• 162kms (not many kms, we had a slow morning then stopped for awhile at Border Village to use their internet and have a shower)
• Can't say what times we drove as the time kept changing! We stopped at our campsite at about 5pm SA time.
• Eucla to just along the Bunda Cliffs (Great Australian Bight).
• Highlights: the views along the cliffs of the Great Australian Bight, camping by ourselves on the edge of the cliffs, watching the sunset over the ocean with a glass of sparkling Shiraz.

Enjoying his remote control car before we left our campsite at the Eucla Telegraph Station ruins (Nullarbor means 'no trees' in Latin, and you can see from this picture that there aren't many).

Crossing the border into SA

Doing the touristy thing!

This oversize truck passed us on the Nullarbor, we were very grateful that there was a wide shoulder for us to pull over on to!

The cliffs at our lunch stop - we didn't stay long as it was super windy, and it was a dust bowl.

The cliffs were pretty impressive though.

At some points you get to view a long stretch of cliff face, which looks so impressive.

You can really see the different layers in this cliff- and see where the ocean is wearing it away.

Our camp spot for the night! We stumbled upon this great spot whilst we were trying to get back onto the main road from one of the lookouts - the road we had taken in was very bumpy so we chose another track and it took us here...what a find!

We celebrated the incredible spot with a glass of sparkling Shiraz.

Looking out along the seemingly never-ending cliffs.

Grandma this one is for you...Emilia couldn't resist pretending to fall over the cliff. In reality we had checked it all out and it was not a sheer drop (even though it looks like it), so we felt safe. However I did lock the caravan door that night so no-one could pop out for a wee half asleep and end up over the edge!

It clouded up so there wasn't much of a sunset, but just being up on the cliffs was spectacular enough.

Daniel dug Emilia an extra special poo hole!!

The setting sun created a lovely glow on the cliffs.

Enjoying the dusk light.

After Emilia had her special toilet hole on the side of the cliff, Jackson decided he'd do an extreme cliff-side wee!!

Day 4- Tuesday 14th February

• 240kms
• 8.50am- 12.30pm
• Cliff top campsite along the Great Australian Bight to Cape Adieu 
• Highlights: drinking coffee on the edge of the cliff whilst watching the sunrise over the ocean, seeing dolphins frolicking in the sea below us, managing to find the place on the beach that we camped at in 2015 (even though we took a few wrong turns and some VERY rocky tracks to get there), black-lipped abalone for dinner, another amazing sunset over the ocean, the stars (once it finally got dark enough, as the sunset seemed to last for ages).

What a spot for our morning coffee!

The photos don't show how great the sunrise was - Emilia tried with her camera too but we both failed to capture the beautiful light as the sun rose over the horizon.

Daniel went for a walk to get these great photos of our camp spot. You can just see Emilia and I enjoying the view (Jackson was still asleep).

Final cliff top selfie before we left.

It was such a beautiful spot, it was hard to leave.

On the way back to the main road we passed another sink hole cave.

The boys went for a dive not long after we arrived at Cape Adieu and got some big black-lipped abalone that we enjoyed for dinner that night.

What a spot for dinner!

And what a feast...marinated abalone.

It was Valentine's Day 😍

Day 5- Wednesday 15th February

• 0 kms
• We stayed at Cape Adieu as it was meant to be a super hot day so we thought the beach was the best place to be.
• Highlights: exploring the rocks, fishing, snorkelling (although the visibility wasn't good), swimming, sunset.
• Lowlight: vomiting into the sand in the night as I think I ate an under cooked piece of cuttlefish

The tide was out so far in the morning that some of the reef was exposed.

The cliffs at the end of the beach were eroded in such an interesting way.

Emilia and I spent a while exploring the cliffs while the boys fished.

The holes in the rocks reminded us of Honeycomb Gorge in Kennedy National Park.

They got abalone and a big cuttlefish.

As Jackson was trying to turn around for a photo the cuttlefish squirted salt water all over him.

The kids played a fun game where they buried their legs in the sand then tried to stay up when a wave came (and not get wet).

While the kids played, Daniel fished and I just soaked up the atmosphere.

The sun set was even better on the 2nd night- it was such an incredible camp spot.