Murphy's Haystacks along the way

Somewhere on the Eyre Peninsular

Every where on the Peninsular they have these huge jetty's so they can get out into the deeper water Coffin Bay

Streaky bay pub there is always a pub and a jetty if nothing else.

Port Lincoln CP we wanted to dive with the sharks but it was booked out for the next week, very popular "next time" as they say.

Pelican Pete on his perch!!

Makybe Diva the melbourne cup winner 2003, 2004 and 2005 originated from around here Port Lincoln that is.

Coffin Bay before Port Lincoln really pretty little place but not much to do unless you fish or swim

Unusually coloured tree trunks around these parts

RSL at Elliston now a children's centre

Huge suculents along the way I have never seen so many in bloom.

Dry stone wall there where miles of them and in the day it took one man all day (10hrs) to build about 22ft "hard yakka"

Streaky Bay

Sea Colony at the bottom of the Eyre Peninsular they all looked dead until they moved which wasn't often.

Down town Ceduna a lovely little town about 200k inside the SA border.

Blue swimmers at Denial Bay near Ceduna

The Great Australian Bight, in various places you can go right out to the coast and what a view.

Ecula a little oasis along the way it was originally a telegraph station
Travellers cross at Ecula

Mundra Pass it's very steep

You can play golf across the Nullarbor they have tees at various places this one was dedicated to a truck driver who had driven the Nullarbor all his working life "Bindy's Tee"

Crossing the Nullarbor nearly 2000k of nearly nothing except these big boys and boy do they dwarf us

Love the sign just a road-house along the way

Never ending road!! or at least that's the way it seems

Sunset somewhere on the Nullarbor

Lunch stop I think.

Down town Norseman they mine gold here so it is a very prosperous little place, water is their main problem and the mine supplies 60% of their requirements these days. From here we start across the Nullarbor Plain.

As the story goes this is Norseman the horse of the prospector that first found gold near here the horse went lame and when they investigated he a lump of gold bearing ore in his hoof.

Camels where a very important part of Norseman for a very long time hence the statues in the round about. The roads are very wide as they where first built to allow a camel train to turn around.

Between Esperence and Norseman is a tiny place called Grass Patch and it's main claim to fame is that they had a VC winner from here in the second world war one Thomas Starchevik

In honour of Thomas Starchevik at Grass Patch WA

Frenchman's Cape in Cape Le Grand National Park we climbed this "hill" it took us 45mins to go up and and hour to come down and boy was it windy.

Esperence windmills and white squeaky sand such beautiful beaches something for every-one from swimmers to surfers or just a stroll along a deserted beach.

Esperence as the sun goes down.

Esperence the walks down are usually fairly steep.


Miniature train station at Esperence looks like a clock tower but it's not.

Wild flowers along the way

Bremer Bay we loved this little sea side place, snorkeling was good.

Bremer bay we thought we might buy this place "what a view"!!

Brig Amity the first ship to sail into Albany such a tiny thing for so many people 60 or so what adventurers they where.


Onboard the Amity

Banksia somewhere along the way

Torndillup National Park near Albany

Tea boxes at the Marine Museum at Albany they brought back memories

Marine museum had a whole section on the Australian Light Horse.


Marintine Museum Albany the Americans had a submarine telecentre here during the war.

Light Horse Monument at Albany the original was built in Europe but when it was bomb they brought the remnants back to Albany and erected it on top of this hill.

Whale world museum at Albany the last whaling station in Aust which closed in 1978 at which time the people of Albany thought the town would die without it's main industry.

Cheney's IV the last whaling ship to sail out of Albany

Whale world Albany