Penong

It seemed a long way today, but we didn't seem to get far, probably due to the eight stops we made along the way. The first was the toilet stop early at Mundrabilla, then a stop at Eucla to visit the old telegraph station now buried up to the chimney by sand, then a stop at Eucla Village at the lookout overlooking the pass.  Our fourth stop was for petrol at the Border Village, then a stop for morning tea at the lookout over the Bight (no whales).  Stop number five was another lookout over the Bight (still no whales, but an old tractor instead), then another toilet stop at Nullabor homestead, and at last, lunch at a roadside stop.

That means that afternoon tea was stop number eight at Nundroo, before we got to our roadside stop near Penong at about 5:30.  All day we had a very strong tailwind again giving us record consumption.  Squally thunderstorms about every 15 minutes.  Just past Yalata community the country changed from saltbush plains to fenced paddocks over rolling hills, and the trees returned.  Ate all our fruit for tea to beat quarantine.