The last three days have seen us cover over 2000km on our journey towards home. That’s the problem when you travel so far, you have to travel back.
Day 18 was the longest by far at over 1000km.
Day 17, we did a two and a half hour tour of the KCGM Superpit which was very interesting. Although we didn’t get right into the superpit, we did get to some of the internal lookouts and get to see the vehicles and buildings up close.
After hanging around for the disappointing 1pm blast in the superpit, we got on the, largely boring, road to Balladonia.
One very pleasant place we detoured into is Newman Rock. If I drove back to Perth, I’d definitely camp here. I could have happily stayed a while longer watching the two ducks in the pond.
Day 18 was just driving. We did detour about 20km along the old road (now a track) into Eucla before arriving in Ceduna for the night.
View from Eucla over the plain.
Sunset along the Ceduna jetty. (for a better shot, see Stephen’s photo here)
Day 19, we drove down around Thevenard and then headed back to the Eyre Highway. After some km’s we detoured back on the dirt down south to Murphy’s Haystacks and then back north-east to the Eyre again.
We detoured north from Minnipa to a bunch of rocks, namely Pildappa Rock.
This seems to be Wave Rock’s lesser know cousin and although not quiet as impressive, it is still pretty interesting.
View from the top.
The other rock we went to was Mt Wudinna which is claimed to be the second largest rock in Australia.
Now in Port Augusta for the second last night of the trip.