Onto the Eyre Highway and heading west, that is the story of today and will be the story for a few days. A few kms down the road we got a last look at Ceduna (or actually the grain silos of Thevenard) looking backwards across ploughed agricultural land.

The days first stop was Penong, which has an interesting outdoor museum of various types of Windmills which were once iconic in central Australia and often provided the only source of water for outback homesteads. Penong also reminded me of the Nullabor Gulf Links (Links since it is nominally "by the sea"). There is one hole at each road house along the Eyre Highway.

Nullabor

Not long after Penong the famous Nullabor sign came into view. The name is latin for "no trees" and although this term only strictly applies to a very short stretch of country through which the Eyre Hwy passes one can be forgiven for feeling like it applies all the way to after Cocklebiddy Roadhouse. Which for me would be over 2 days riding.

The "wombat" hole

At Nundroo Roadhouse I fueled up the bike as well as myself and captured a picture of another hole in the Nullabor Links. I felt this hole captured the spirit of a Nullabor crossing very well. A Golf Hole and a derelict car in the same image.

Iconic Images

Roadhouses are the life line of this highway and without them the drive would be impossible.

As for scenery, the big draw card is the Australian Bight and the Great Southern Ocean. There are lots of places to take a detour south on rough tracks to get images of these.

Koonalda Homestead and the old Eyre Highway

When planning this trip one of my high priority goals was to visit a place called Koonalda. As you can read in the following link (Koonalda) this is the ruin of an old homestead that provided services to travellers along the original route of the Eyre Highway. The turn off to Koonalda is 88km before the Western Australian border and is 12km north on a rough dirt track.

As you can see from the pictures below I actually managed to find accomodation in one of the derelict buildings.

The carpet on the floor suggests that maybe National Parks folks use this building for accomodation also.

I heard about Koonaldra from Mongrel Dog Productions on youtube