Caves, Cars and Shifting Sands

A pleasant freecamp on the Nuytsland reserve along the Eyre Highway greeted us with a chilly morning requiring first use of diesel heater for many months.

 
Access to Cocklebiddy Cave is closed due to very obvious overhanging rockfall risks, but the site entrance is still impressive.







From the Madura overlook we descend to the roadhouse, then disappear on a rutted track to pass through God's Waiting rooms for destitute jalopies from yesteryear until we reach the mechanical cemetery where the bodies that have been shot, mangled, disembowelled or worse, are finally laid to rest.





Along a stony dirt track, a left turn wends through trees aplenty surprising in the Nullarbor to suddenly reveal the scalloped limestone margins and gaping hole of Madura cave which is accessible with a tight squeeze through a hole into the chamber.

















Onwards to Eucla where the graffitied ruins of the Old Telegraph Station slumber in the late afternoon sun while the wind blows sands from the surrounding dunes to envelop each room.

Wonderful breezes and bright sun make camping in the dunes such a pleasure to share with the many birds of passage tweeting in the vegetation.

As the sun climbs and the temperature rises, our 1 km walk through the dunes takes us to the old jetty, built in 1897, now a perch for cormorants as it slowly declines into the waves.



























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Nullarbor, Western Australia, WA, Eucla, Old Jetty, Old Telegraph Station, Camping, Sand Dunes