4th Nov - Madura to Penong... SA

What a shit of a day is forecast, red hot  (42) crosswind with a bit of headwind... followed by thunderstorms! So we are off at a good pace - bus temps and fuel notwithstanding! Mundrabilla is reputed to have the cheapest fuel in these parts! I guess $1.90 per litre does it. Decide to keep the 60 (well really 57) litres in the cans...

With little event we make it to South Australia - for which we were bound, of course. The 'new' highway follows the coast for 100 or so KM with various camps/parks overlooking the cliffs of the Great Australian Bite. We stop at a few and are nearly blown off said cliffs by the 40+ degrees and 20-30kt northerly... well NNE'ly. We decide to keep going afer appreciating the views...

SA-WA border

And so we get to the 'real' Nullarbor  (which is in SA , along the coast anyway). Nullarbor Roadhouse claims to be the western end... and lo and behold the scenery is actually treeless for about, oh, 70 or so KM. On through Yatala aboriginal ground... and aiming for Nundroo or Penong.

the cliffs of the GABite

We have changed time zones. We ignored the South eastern WA zone change of 45 minutes ahead of Perth???? So now we feel like it is approaching 1830 - where from this morning's perspective it is 1600!!! Either way I am pooped and the passengers are pooped, So we will find a stop to stop. A shower is first order where-ever.

could park right up to the edge here.
Looked to be about 500 feet to the bottom

Penong it is. About 660KM for the day  and have crossed the Nullarbor!! But they have a power outage and the storms are thickening. We should be in for a noisy night. Power is back on at about 10 so its shower time!

PS: Of course we didn't cover 7540KM yesterday more like 740... but 1400KM over two stinking hot cross-windy days is plenty...