It took us 2 and a bit days to cross the Nullabor. We drove 650 km the first day and got to a free camp spot just past Caiguna and just before Madura. It was called Observatory Turnoff rest area. It was probably the nicest free camp spot we had stayed at – only one other caravan parked quite a distance away. We did a fire and marshmallows again. On this day we had driven along the stretch of road which is marked the longest straight stretch of road – 145km without a bend in it.
The next day, we were hoping to get to Ceduna, which is classified as one end of the Nullabor. It was about 730 km to get there. The problem was, we were going to lose 2 & 1/2 hrs because of crossing the border into SA. Michael had us all waking up at 5.30am (WA time) in order to leave by 6.00am (which was 8.30am new time). We drove about 180km to reach the SA border. We crossed the border at a roadhouse locality called Bordertown. They did have fruit and vegetable quarantine, but not until Ceduna, so we had some extra time to use up the last of ours before disposing of it. It was difficult driving today because there was quite a strong crosswind most of the way. We found out later when Michael looked up the weather on his iPhone, that there was 20-25knots of wind that day. So we racked up our worst fuel consumption that day, and we also fell about 80km short of our destination because Michael was too tired by the end of the end of the day to keep going – he’d had to concentrate hard with the winds. So we ended up staying at another free camping spot that night (we figured it would make up for the extra fuel we used:)). For part of that day, we were virtually driving right beside the ocean – along the Great Australian Bight. We also drove along a 20km stretch called ‘The Treeless Plain’.
The next day, we drove into Ceduna in the morning, all feeling a bit unclean and hanging out for a shower. We did a small grocery shop at Ceduna, and then started driving down the Flinders Hwy to Streaky Bay where we had decided to stay today.