Venus Bay to WA Border.

 Wednesday 16/4/25

Yesterday we left Venus Bay and travelled to Ceduna, stopping to get fuel in Streaky Bay. We decided that on a future trip we would like to spend some more time in these two towns.

After shopping for food, gas etc we continued westward and found a beautiful campsite in off the highway past the original Eyre Highway which runs parallel to the new one.

The flies nearly carried us away but there was little wind and we waited till dark to cook our dinner so we didn’t have any added protein!!



Flies on the outside of the camper this morning.
Bob’s solution to flies in the ear problem.

Just before we packed up this morning.







Once packed up we drove to the Head of Bight Whale Watching Centre. This is the furthest point north of the Great Australia Bight. There was an information centre which was really interesting but unfortunately too early for whales. However the view from the board walks along the cliffs was spectacular.






We then drove to the Nullarbor Roadhouse for lunch, made some calls because we had signal and then drove further west.

This is the old roadhouse. Bob may have stopped here on his 1968 trip to Perth.


 We stopped to help some back packers as their vehicle had broken down but couldn’t do much. Some other people were going to the Border Village and were going to try and get someone to come out and help them.

We camped at Koonalda Homestead which is now part of a national park but was once a sheep property on the old Eyre Highway so it was 18klms off the new highway. This was a fuel stop for travellers and from the look of it many old cars didn’t may it any further.



This is the same model of Mini as Bob’s. His did make it to Perth AND back to Adelaide in his 1968 trip.





There were many of the original building still standing though they are deteriorating as National Parks do not maintain them.

Shearing shed.
Shearing shed.

Homestead built from old railway sleepers. Very sturdy.

Homestead kitchen.







Shearer’s quarters.

Kitchen in shearer’s 

This blow hole was at Koonalda and you could feel the air coming up from the cave below.











We left Koonalda and continued west on the  Eyre Highway stopping at some lookouts on the Great Australian Bight.


We were lucky enough to see a pod of dolphins swimming by without a care in the world.










We arrived at the Border Village and paid a princely sum for fuel. Then we went through the quarantine checkpoint and only lost a few sticks of firewood because they had bark on them.






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