To the End of the Nullarbor

Nullarbor Roadhouse is a waystation where the trek across the Nullarbor starts or ends. Quirky signs abound and we spotted a resting cute, canary yellow, VW combi combo.

Next detour was to Head of Bight, famous in season as a whale nursery, for classic views of the Bunda cliffs disappearing for 100s of kms to the horizon.

Singing honeyeaters popped berries in their beaks. A splendidly coloured dragon basked in the sun.

Sadly, large, roadkill wombats lined the road. We stopped at a 'Wombat Hotel', lots of earthworks and poop, but despite playing wombat noises, saw no live ones.

From there, the Nullarbor treeless expanses dwindled into tree cover and the westernmost farmland in SA before reaching Penong. Resupplied with veg, fruit and water, we visited a super, outdoor display of vintage windmills rescued from abandonment and ruin in the Outback.

Onwards to amazing MacDonnell Lake with its psychedelic colours. What an absolutely stunning spot. Had a great chat to a local born of generations here. This is where virtually all of Australia's gypsum is mined, a million tons a year, which gets shipped out on trains and made into cement, plasterboard, and in agriculture. 

Down the road towards Point Sinclair, we reached the sheltered jetty of Point LeHunte with its shark protection swimming enclosure built after a local 11-year-old got taken by a white pointer shark in 1975.

We stayed at the bushcamp behind the dunes of glowing, sunlit Cactus Beach, a surf mecca.

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Nullarbor Roadhouse, Kombi, Signs, Wombats, Nullarbor, Cactus Beach, Point LeHunte, Head of the Bight, Great Australian Bight, Penong, Penong Windmill Museum, Lizard, South Australia