Leaving WA and on to Fowlers Bay in SA

The fuel light had been showing for 20 kms before we stopped for the night so the start of the next day began with a feeling of anxiety as I kept my fingers crossed  we would make the service station... 10 kms away. Greg was playing it cool but I think both of us were clenching our teeth and hoping that we'd make the 10 kms....... We did!!! Like the sign says Fue....Phew!!

 Then it was over the border and into South Australia. Made the "must do stop" to see the cliffs, they are impressive.

On and on until we drove through the Nullarbor Plain itself ..but only for about 20 kms. The vegetation over the past few hundred kms goes from treed plains to shrubs and finally down to tussocky grass; sparse and low growing.

 But I think they've had a lot of rain as everything looks fresh, clean and green. Plenty of birds about from small honeyeaters, fan tailed cuckoos, plenty of crows, major mitchell cockatoos, and the odd soaring wedge tailed eagle.

 We didn't see any other animals despite the signs and that was a good thing.

Decided to spend the night at Fowlers Bay but unfortunately it involved 12 kms of teeth-shattering dirt corrugations. Our micro-wave didn't appreciate the trip and I'm not sure it'll recover. It is a quiet sleepy fishing settlement with a long jetty and some huge sand dunes. Power supplied by a generator. 

We stayed in t a very friendly caravan park where we were surrounded by people from WA. I'm sure the fishing would be excellent.

Matthew Flinders discovered the area in 1803, whaling began and a huge pastoral station was developed. One year they shore 122 000 sheep. There are some old buildings but most have been lost including the 14 roomed homestead that included a fernery. If you saw the countryside; sparse vegetation and little water, a fernery is exactly the opposite of what you would expect. All gone now. This spot was also the place Eyre took in supplies before his epic journey overland to Albany in 1841.