Nullarbor Day 1

As many of you know, "Nullarbor" is a confitulation of an old Aboriginal word derived from the Portuguese for "poor television reception area". I stop to take the obligatory Nullarbor sign photo, get roped into taking group shots for some German girls who want to stand on their car. A few hundred metres west of the sign that says "treeless plain" I see a tree.

Stop at the Head of the Bight tourist centre, which seems to sum up many things which are wrong with our modern world. Set among hundreds of kilometres of unfenced, uninhabited open land which look out upon the thousands of kilometres of unbroken ocean horizons stretching away towards the vast unknown, you are made to drive through a gate and pay five dollars to see the Bight. Before you get to the various signs providing interesting scientific information about southern right whales & geography, you have to pass signs about things like "Waddabunjacrap" the "giant snake" that made the land etc.

But it's pretty spectacular, and more importantly, there is a good selection of fridge magnets.

Head of the Australian Bight - worth the 5 bucks