The Australian Bite

Esperance was our last port of call in WA before we started the long trek east, in the direction of home, around the Australian Bite, across the Nullarbor. Sickness hit us. The boys fell one by one, first Kai, then Sol, then Cem. Kai started it all by insisting on sleeping near naked with all his end windows wide open.... and the nights are COLD. Only Ayla and I remained well, and carted our sick passengers across the Nullarbor. Go Girls!! Unfortunately Sol was sick on his 10th birthday, the first day on the Nullarbor. Here is the long haired lout, with his rosy cheeks trying to be cheery at his birthday lunch at Balladonia. He particularly requested this type of birthday cake and I was able to find one at the delicious French bakery in Esperance.

We didn't stop much along the Nullarbor, we just drove. Belladonia was a bit interesting (although it is literally just a roadhouse) because in 1979 American Skylab had crash landed in this area scattering debris from Esperance to Belladonia. Jimmy Carter, the US president at the time, actually made a phonecall to the roadhouse to apologise, but this did not stop them from apparently getting a $400 fine for littering. Here is a piece of Skylab in the small museum there.

We crossed the South Australian border and farewelled WA. Quarantine check first at Ceduna way after the border, so we ate up all our apples and bananas as we drove, unfortunately we had to hand over all our lemons.

This image probably looks very familiar, the beautiful Bunda Cliffs of the Great Australian Bite.

From Ceduna, we headed onto Streaky Bay and booked into the caravan park there for one night so our sick passengers could have some comforts such as power, showers, common room with TV and camp kitchen where we cooked pancakes and baked cookies for dinner because thats all anyone felt like eating.