Nullabour

A few days after New years day, we decided that we had to leave Perth. We needed to find work to make some cash, and working in Perth would mean that we would be spending more time over there. We'd already been there for 3 months and travelled around the south of WA. We felt that it was time that we headed east.

We had an invite from our good friends Ben and Tanja, to cross the notorious Nullabour (meaning: plain with no trees). It took us a few days to make up our minds, we needed to decide if we was going to sell The Pom Bomb or was we going to drive from WA to The east.

We actually decided to sell The Pom Bomb. So we made signs put them in the car and around the Scarborough local shops, and placed an advert on gumtree. We heard nothing. So that was it we made up our minds we was leaving WA and we would take up Ben and Tanja's offer and drive the whole way.

Craig and I said our good byes to Aunty Rachel and Uncle David, we also said farewell to our good friends Ellie and Nella. The off we went.

The next chapter of our journey.

We headed towards Esperance, taking the Albany Highway and then the South Coast highway. We drove 712kms in one day.

We had arranged to meet Ben and Tanja, but we didn't say where. So when we got there it was getting pretty dark and we needed to find some where fast. We tried the national park where it was on $9pppn. No good there it was full. The camp site in town was full too. So we ended up at the next cheapest available place the YHA. $60 for two single beds in one room. Bit pricey but the bed was comfortable, and there was no setting up our great little tent.

So after a good nights sleep we woke up checked out and went to the car. I wish this apart of the story didn't happen. The Pom Bombs exhaust had shit it's self. I was hanging around 2inches off the floor. Fixing this was priority. We found the near garage this happened to be behind the YHA. And it was a discount place. BINGO.

He had to replace the whole exhaust. $400 dollar's out of our pocket, but it needed to be done.

By 2pm we was able to hit the road.

Whilst the car was being fixed we managed to get hold of the White's and plan what we was going to to. The decided to head off a few hours before us in Black Betty. We would meet them for a spot of lunch in Norseman (The start of the Nullabour).


After Norseman we would start to head east towards the WA/SA border.

Here's a few snaps of random stops