Our Nullarbor Great Road Journey started on April 8/10 after leaving Ceduna.
We headed off early morning and stopped after a couple hours for some photos of these amazing rocks
called Murphy's Haystacks. These large rock formations stand alone in a farmers field and are amazing considering there is nothing else around except wide open space. Where did they come from??
We stopped and bought some bread from a road side stand. It was pretty unique as the owner gets up every morning and bakes hundred of loaves of bread and rolls, leaves them in a little hut and locals and travellers stop and pick what they want and leave the money in a box using the old honour system. How nice that in this world we can still find people with old fashioned values.
The scenery along the Nullarbor Plains changes constantly with open fields of scrub and brush and then lush forests of gum trees and native plants. The entire plains were once covered by ocean and this was made
evident when I found a sea shell while playing a round of gold on the Nullabarbor Links Golf Course.
This is the longest golf course in the world stretching from Ceduna to Kalgoorlie. You play a hole at designated spots along the way each hole being several hundred killometres apart. We have only played one hole so far and it was pretty rugged course. After two days of camping on the plains we reached the town of Norseman which is the official end of the Nullarbor. We even got a certificate to honour the event.
Norseman is a historic goldmining town. Legend has it that a prospector tied his horse "Hardy Norseman" to a tree overnight in the 1890's. By morning the horse had unearthed a large piece of gold quartz by pawing the ground. Over five million ounces of gold have been taken out of Norseman. The monument is a tribute to the horse. We are now in a town called Esperence on the south west coast. Will post photos of this beautiful town at a later date. Cheers for now....Bob & Mary-anne
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