Travelling from Perth over to Melbourne was definitely an experience. I had picked up a German guy to do the trip with in a Mitsubishi camper van and we headed off with six days to get to Melbourne, but planned to make the most of the trip. We started our first day to get to Hyden and view wave rock, spending the night within sight of the large rock. It is a crazy sight to see this large rock formation that looks like a crashing wave. From here we head down to Esperance and did a coastal drive around and also had time to refuel both food and gas as from this point on we would need to stop at most fuel stations as you never know for sure how long your fuel would last or if the fuel station actually had fuel as we found out the day before. The beaches here were wonderful but there was a strong breeze from the south right off the great southern ocean which made it cool. Our next stop is in Norseman which is the last town before the straight trip over the south and the start of the Nullarbor. It is also the host to one of the holes on the world’s longest golf course the Nullarbor links which stretch across the whole of the Nullarbor from Kalgoorlie Boulder to Ceduna I think is the 18th hole. We stopped for the night just on the Nullarbor at one of the holes and a sheep station and planned to get an early start to the next day and make it to Ceduna if possible but we would be losing time as we would lose two and a half hours during the trip. So an early morning the next day and we start our travel. There would be long stretches of nothing to see but open fields. Also we would be driving over the longest stretch of straight highway in Australia, a stretch of 146 km of no turns or bends in the road. This was not the most exciting part of my journey so far but a necessary part of the trip. From her we make it to the border with South Australia and stop to take pictures of the Great Australian Bight. Amazing coastal waters but not really a swimming mecca more of coast for surfers and even then it was a very hard to get to. Then we travel the rest of the day and head into Ceduna just before dark, it had turned pretty nasty the end of the day and was pouring down rain. The next day we head over to Adelaide another stretch of driving with not so much to see. When we get to see Adelaide we see the botanical gardens and tour a bit of the city but there isn’t much else there. So we move on the next day to get close to the great ocean road so that we will be able to see that without too much rushing through it. But that will be the next story, the finishing of traveling east, the great ocean road, Melbourne and Sydney for the holidays.
