A very crisp morning at the Nullarbor Roadhouse Caravan Park (to call it a park is being kind!!)
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| The "caravan park" |
The next hole #14 was right here at the roadhouse - Dingo's Den the longest hole of the course at 538 metres.
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| A very long hole |
We turned off the highway for the 12 km. drive into the Head of the Bight to view the amazing limestone cliffs,
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| The majestic cliffs at Head of the Bite |
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| The boardwalk at Head of the Bite |
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| It was so exciting to see the mothers and calves |
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| The calves were so cute |
One mother even had a white calf, a very rare sight we were priveleged to see.
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| They were very close |
Just after we returned to the highway we passed the sign signalling the eastern end of 'the treeless plain'.
Next hole at the Nundroo roadhouse was # 15 Wombat Hole - the guys comments on this hole was "for commandos only, forget the golf clubs you need a slasher and a brushcutter, this was real snake territory"
Jeff lost one ball here and Laurie lost three, but they did have a good laugh, and that is what it is all about.
On to Penong for hole #16 Windmills, this hole was more like, but not quite, an actual golfcourse. It was a par 3, but their comment - "nasty"
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| This was a Nasty hole!! |
We arrived in Ceduna tired and hungry so we quickly found the Big 4 caravan park and settled in for a relaxing 'happy hour' before dinner and watching the footy.
Ceduna - is a sleepy little town on the coast, unofficially the end of the Nullarbor crossing.
It is popularly believed that Ceduna is a contraction of the Aboriginal word Cheedoona, which means "a place to sit down and rest", and that is what we need right now.
Saturday 13th September
Today is a rest and relaxation day and a day without driving, so we walked into town
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| The main street of Ceduna |
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| This sign in the main street |
and along the beachfront, out along the pier,
and out along the highway (by this time we were wishing we had taken the car, as it was over 30 degrees) to the Oyster Bar, where most of us enjoyed a large plate of local oysters and a drink before the long walk back via the golf course to check out the last two holes, then back to the caravan park to collect the golf clubs. Whew!!
We then drove to the course to complete the last two holes- #17 Denial Bay and
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| Check out this "green" |
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| This is it mate - were heading to the very last hole |
#18 Oysters Beds.
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| We made it! 18 holes and 1365 kilometres - Yeah! |
As the course was actually closed, we found a nice bench and created our own '19th hole to celebrate the completion of the 'Nullarbor Links'
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| Cheers to us!! |
We then headed straight into the visitors centre to have the score card stamped and to claim our certificates to prove we completed the course.
It certainly did make the Nullarbor crossing a lot more interesting. In fact the whole crossing was a lot easier than any of us expected.
The boys played on a variety of surfaces in all types of weather, braving winds, mosquitos and lots of biting march flies. Us girls refused to caddy but we did tag along and had lots of laughs at their antics. But all in all, we all had a lot of fun completing this amazing challenge of the Nullarbor Links, and would highly recommend it to anyone travelling the Eyre Highway.
We found that there were only a few hundred kilometres that you could actually say was flat and treeless, the rest of the highway was really no different to any other part of the country we have travelled through.
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| Most of the Nullabor looked like this, plenty of trees and shrubs |
Definitely the best "wow" factor along the Nullarbor were the majestic cliffs along the Great Australian Bite - their beauty almost took you breath away.
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| the majestic cliffs at the Head of the Bite |
Ceduna is unofficially the end of the Nullarbor experience, but the Eyre Highway actually continues on to Port Augusta, and that is where we are headed tomorrow.
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