Day 1: Perth to Balladonia (947km)
Day 2: Balladonia to Ceduna (983km)
Day 3: Ceduna to Adelaide (634 km)
6:30am – Leave Ceduna, admire sunrise
- 6:20am - Leave
transcendancing’s house with fully laden car (Tetris achievement unlocked!)
- Meckering, buy petrol
- Southern Cross, buy petrol
- 12:30pm – Lunch at Coolgardie (decide to skip the Kargoorlie pit detour)
- Coolgardie, buy petrol
- Norseman (lakes were most lovey) buy postcards
- 5:15pm – Arrive Balladonia, buy petrol, eat food, write postcards, shower, sleep
Day 2: Balladonia to Ceduna (983km)
- 6:30 am – Leave Balladonia
- See eagles feasting on dead roo, take photographs of eagles, but not roo.
transcendancing pulled over for speeding by very, very nice police. Woe
- Cocklebiddy, buy petrol, take photos, buy stuffed squid, name squid ‘Cockle’
- Wave at Madura, think about tea, identify
transcendancing is ill
- Mundrabilla, buy petrol
- Wave at Eucla, drive up non-flat bit to great excitement
- Cross Western Australia – South Australia Border (wave)
- Stop at Great Australian Bight to stare, take photos
- Nullabor Roadhouse – definitely not Narnia
- 8:15pm Arrive Ceduna, order food, eat, walk, bathe, sleep
Day 3: Ceduna to Adelaide (634 km)
6:30am – Leave Ceduna, admire sunrise
- Poochera, buy petrol, take photo of dinosaur ant, chat to lovely store owner, do not make ‘screwed the poochera’ jokes *gives
prk a filthy look*
- Wudinna, buy petrol
- 11:00 am Cowell, admire ‘crap’ art show in public toilets, no seriously, art show
- 12:00 pm Ferry from Luck Bay to Wallaroo (2 hours not driving was good)
- 2:00 pm – Wallaroo, locate hospital, medicate
transcendancing’s throat infection
- Arrive Adelaide, arrive Juliette and Damian's, soak up warm hospitality and peach cobbler, discuss pterodactyls
- 6:30am – Leave Adelaide and drive up into hills (sunrise thankfully blocked by hills)
- Murray Bridge, buy petrol
- Kaniva, sleep in Windmill café for 30 mins - v. good idea (staff were fabulous)
- Wave at Stawell, discover it is pronounced ‘stall’
- Ararat, buy petrol
- 4:30pm - Arrive Melbourne, cuddle
littleboot
- Union Hotel, Brunswick, eat food, cuddle
littleboot
- Sleep in, drink tea, cuddle
littleboot
- Arrive at cafe, hug
hope,
skud,
japester and
littleboot (just in case), eat all the food
- Drive to airport, fly home, cuddle everyone, laundry, food, shower, sleep