Pt 2 - Day 65 - WA border

This morning we have an early start.  Well, as early as we can anyway.  We drive out of the park at 7:45am just as the sun is coming up.  We would have liked to get away earlier but it is just too dangerous driving in the dark.  Today we plan to drive about 600km and get as close to the border as we can.  We still have fruit and veg that needs eating so I night free camping before we cross over is what we planned to do.

A fairly uneventful drive.  We stop at Ceduna for fuel which isn't too badly priced for this area.  Impossible to get a decent coffee now though.  We pay $2.50 for one I have to make myself, then discover the urn isn't even hot!!!!   Insignificant you may well think, but this is important stuff when you have to sit behind the wheel for the next couple of hours!!  The roads in SA are really good, so we can relax a little and enjoy the drive.  We also have a tail wind so we are just hooning along at around 100km and just under 2000 revs, great for the fuel economy.

We stop at the Head of the Bight and walk down the walk way to see the water crashing against the cliffs.  It is really quite warm now, about 32C and we sure feel it in the middle of the day.  It does look like someone has taken a big bite out of Australia, as the cliffs are just a sheer drop to the water.  We see a couple of sea lions frolicking in the waves but it is the wrong time of the year for the whales.  We could stand and watch the waves forever, but we must move on.

They are standing on a fenced off area at a rest stop right at the edge of a cliff here!!!

At about 70km away from the border we stop at a rest area to have a look.  It is only 4pm which is a bit early for us to stop at a rest area as there is nothing for the children to do, it is hot and windy, Glen and I will just start eating and drinking, plus we don't feel 100% happy to be camped so close to cliff faces with our exploring kids looking for something to do.  We have the wind behind us as well, so we decide to head across the border after all.  So I jump in the van and cut up my remaining salad and throw some dressing over it, as Mum said quarantine are happy for you to have salads made up.  I hand out some fruit and off we go.



The border inspection is the most comprehensive one we have had so far.   The inspector checks all eskies in the car and hops in the van and checks the pantry and fridge.  They take the last of our apples and a couple of onions and the last of Shannae's creamed honey that she bought on Kangaroo Island.  She wasn't too impressed about this.  Then off we went.

Cody, being camouflaged!!!

The kids go feral after being cooped up in the car!!

We then turned all our clocks back.  So instead of being 4:30 and time to start thinking about stopping, all of a sudden it is 2pm so we can still fit in another couple of hours on the road!!!!  We don't of course, we drive for about another 100km before we find a rest stop with a toilet and decide to stop for the night.  The weather is starting to get very windy and threatening now.  We eat tea at about 5pm, which is really 7:30 to our bodies, and we end up in bed by 8pm, which is really 10:30.  It is completely dark by 6:30 which is very strange.  It is a hot night, vehicles come and go from the rest stop and no one gets a great night's sleep!!!!!!