The Nullarbor Crossing 15 - 18 November 2011

The view from our first camp on the Nullarbor, 80km out of Norseman...we certainly felt very much in the Australian Outback.

Many long stretches of straight road.

It was about 40 degrees when we were driving along the Nullarbor so when we reached this blowhole at Caiguna, it was a welcome relief with cool air blowing up from below the ground.

Seemed like 1146.6 km

Madura Pass....beautiful looking out to the plains from the plateau.

A 'swarm' of budgies invaded our campsite at Modini's Bluff. We saw several flocks for the next 100 kilometres or so. It was an amazing site as they landed on our car, van and even covered the green when playing the 11th hole at Mundrabilla Road House.

Less than 3000km to go!

We finally came to the 'treeless' part of the Nullarbor.

After the Nullarbor Roadhouse we had rain, fire and a magnificent rainbow.

This was truly a unique spectacle.
The rainbow stayed with us for at least an hour and for much of this time it seemed like the 'pot of gold' was on the road  ahead of us.

The dark clouds added to the effect.

When we drove into Penong to fuel up this was on the fuel bowser.
Our $150 bill seemed OK after that.

We drove from Penong to Point Sinclair.
There was no mention of a 'Pink Lake' but to our surprise we drove across one.
As you can see it was pink on the right but a normal blue on the left!