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Ceduna, Australia
32° 6' S 133° 40' E
Nov 25, 2002 10:18
Distance 554km

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The great Nullarbor drive - part I

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Getting up nice and early Clossy and Dave (both lads we had met in the Adelaide hostel) as well as Paul and myself went to the supermarket to get a supply of food and drink (including a 10 Litre container of water) and then to fill Clossy's Mitsubishi Magna's petrol tank and get a drum of spare fuel before we set off on a journey that is longer in distance than driving from London to Moscow and would take us on Eyre's highway across some of Australia's harshest country, the Nullarbor, which literally translated means no trees in Latin as there is nothing but flies and dust and a petrol station every few hundred kilometers until we reached our final destination of Perth (and all just to see a game of cricket).
We set out expecting to maybe see some kangaroos or other native Australian wildlife before we arrived at Ceduna, which would be our stop for the night. When we arrived in Ceduna after driving endless kilometer after endless kilometer just as the sun was setting we had not spotted anything apart from dust, flies and road trains (massive multi-trailer lorries that hurtle along the road towards you).
Ceduna itself turned out to be a very quite town in the middle of nowhere but was full of people who had arrived early in anticipation of the full solar eclipse that would best be viewed in a few days from this desolate town.