Although the days are often very long when you're trying to get from one town to the next in northern Western Australia, there are a few highlights to keep you from dying of boredom along the way.
The colours of the landscape outside your car window are breath taking. Reds, greens, blues, yellows - it's like looking at a moving painting.
The days can get long but this means you may be lucky enough to witness a few W.A sunsets in your travels. Magic.
We thought there were plenty of roadtrains across the Nullarbor but there's even more up in these parts of Oz. Some are coming from the mines, others are taking supplies to remote communities and most of the truckies who drive these monster vehicles are really nice. One guy even waited for us to get petrol at a road house so we could catch a ride on his tail (and save ourselves some petrol money and allow us to gain a little more speed - we stuck with him for over three hours! What a guy!).
There's random wild animals lining the sides of the road, like these camel-like cows that kept popping out from the bushes on the sides of the highway. Emus and kangaroos are common too, as well as eagles and wild camels, although we didn't see any. Understandable with the size of the roadtrains plowing down the roads, there's plenty of roadkill as well..
The road houses are few and far between and look a little like this... Yep, a petrol station with a few dirt filled powered sites out the back. But gee it's good to see one, when your petrol tank is sitting on empty and you haven't seen another car in either direction for 30minutes.
Yours racking up the kilometres,
Odette
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