Leaving Adelaide...our last sanctuary for a LONG time!

Yep...another 90 miles of nothing

Oh look, it's straight for a change

Although we didn't find Adelaide all that interesting, we would soon realise that we should not have taken it for granted, given its great commodities such as err petrol and civilisation, that we would soon be missing. I may have mentioned earlier that the distance we were aiming to travel between Adelaide and Perth would equal that of London to Moscow, which although is long, is still achieveable. However there was a twist when doing it here of course, as imagine you set off from London, maybe go through France and the rest of Europe until you reach Russia. How about you replace going through France and the rest of Europe with COMPLETE AND UTTER NOTHINGNESS. That's pretty much what this journey was like, as after leaving Adelaide we visited a couple of other towns until we got to the Nullabor Plain, which is a couple of thousands of kilometres of nothing. When I say 'nothing' I want you to imagine you're stuck in the middle of scrub land in over 40 degree heat, with no civilisation and no people for as far as the eye can see. Fortunately we had checked our tyres, oil, water levels, and had a spare can of petrol before hand as breaking down wasn't really an option. Out there there is no phone signal for miles, and according the the lovely stories we have heard, the Aboriginees would have your car on bricks before the RAC got to you! We had invested in a (free) map of the Nullabor plain before we set off though and it marked out all the 'towns' along the way so we aimed to stop for the night at one of these. The one we went for is called 'Cocklebiddy', which unashamedly brands itself as the 'Home of Bulls**t and Beer'. We were a tad suprised, as you can imagine, that the 'town' consisted of a petrol station and a motel. Ritzy. We put our foot down the next day, drove through the 'longest, straightest' stretch of road in Oz (what a crowd pleaser....all 90 miles of it!) and thankfully made it out of the Nullabor plain and back into civilisation, albeit only a small town, but it sold beer so we were pleased!