We tried to get up and going but by the time we'd got coffee etc we didn't leave Esperance until about 10...we drove a lot today . The Nullarbour is just kind of lots of the same, scrubby, flat scenery and road disappearing into the distance. Apparently we drove on the longest straight stretch of road in Australia (90 miles) but to be honest it didn't stand out from the rest of the Eyre Highway to me, then again perhaps I was asleep. There are the occasional road houses, they are very disappointing you are lucky to get a coffee. We stayed the first night at Caiguna, about 250km further than where we'd planned to stop because we got to the first stop and it was 3.30 in the afternoon. The caravan park was a gravel paddock, absolutely nothing to do so we drove on. After a hard days driving we set up the van in a another but different gravel paddock and then went and had a beer and a game of pool at the roadhouse bar.
An earlyish start the next day for the 800 km drive ahead of us. The over night stops in the Nullarbour were too depressing to stay another night on so we decided to drive straight through to Ceduna. We had plenty of stops, coffee, chocolate and movies for the kids. We arrived in Ceduna at about 8pm ( really 6.30pm-we'd lost one and a half hours due to time differences). This leg of the Nullarbour was quite pretty at the end once you hit the coast views. It was very windy but beautiful.
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