Travel for the Over 30s

23 Dec
Eyre Bird Sanctuary - Nullarbor Road House
650km
10am-6pm
Eyre runs on Eyre time - 1 hour ahead of WA time because the weather readings can be taken on the hour.  The local time is actually 45 minutes ahead of Perth, but that’s unofficial - there’s a big sign on the road, the local roadhouses use the time, but its not official - go figure!

Whatever timezone it was at Eyre Bird Sanctuary we moved slower here and met the gorgeous pink parrots - Major Mitchells who are top of the local pecking order, over breakfast.  We figured there wouldn’t be much to do at the next road house so we didn’t leave until about 10.

Mundrabillie Roadhouse seems to have the biggest line up of caravans we’ve seen - and some of the cheapest petrol too. Its dropped from a high $1.70 to $1.45 here. Mind you there would be a lot more in the peak holiday season in the winter

The strangest thing happened today it rained a couple of times. It certainly made for nice driving conditions though the photos are a bit dull. The edge of the ancient limestone cliff is the most dominate feature of the plain - we dropped over the edge of it when we drove south to Eyre and again today we reached the eastern  edge at Madura Pass -and dropped over the edge of it - then the landscape got really, really flat!

Surprised to see a zebra crossing in the middle of nowhere? - not quite - in several places the road doubles as an emergency air strip for the Royal Flying Doctors- after all its the only sealed road for thousands of kilometres!

We finally get to see some wildlife - a couple of emus run across the road and then pose for photos - because there had been rain the were few animals to be seen on the road

And finally we are nearly at the South Australian border!

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