I lie in my tent looking out over the Nullabor (more like Nullawesome... more on that later). Three days have passed since I left Karrak Reach. I've left behind a place and period in my life that has been much more than bricklaying, travellers and karri forests put together. Somewhere in the simplicity of waking up in the morning, having breakfast and then trudging up a hill to lay bricks for five hours, I've found a perspective on life that is much more fullfilling than the one I arrived with. It might be that the complexity of life back in Sydney will smother what I've learnt, but I hope not.
So I began the final stage of my Australia trip on Friday driving from Denmark along the South Coast Highway to Albany. It's a town with a lot of heritage especially the buildings close to the water. In Albany I went looking for someone to share fuel costs with but the backpackers were bare so I'm on my lonesome. From Albany it was ~550 km to Esperance, predominantly a mining and grain port but at least it was pretty. From Esperance it was another 200km to Norseman, where the directions were turn right at the Eyre Highway, follow for 2000km. I went through the 90mile strip, which is a straight bit of bitumen for 146km, and continued on my way. I stopped at the Mundrabilla Motel for fuel ($1.54/l) and now I'm camped on the side of the road just west of
the SA border. Although it's a lot of driving I've enjoyed the nullabor. Although it's incredibly rugged there's so much life here, lots of plants (all shades of muddy green) birds (lots of crows and butcher birds feeding off the roadkill) and insects (many flies). The enormous flat stretches are mind bending, it must have been some feat
to build the road through here. So yeah, not long left of this trip at the rate I'm going, but all good things come to and end, don't they?
So I began the final stage of my Australia trip on Friday driving from Denmark along the South Coast Highway to Albany. It's a town with a lot of heritage especially the buildings close to the water. In Albany I went looking for someone to share fuel costs with but the backpackers were bare so I'm on my lonesome. From Albany it was ~550 km to Esperance, predominantly a mining and grain port but at least it was pretty. From Esperance it was another 200km to Norseman, where the directions were turn right at the Eyre Highway, follow for 2000km. I went through the 90mile strip, which is a straight bit of bitumen for 146km, and continued on my way. I stopped at the Mundrabilla Motel for fuel ($1.54/l) and now I'm camped on the side of the road just west of
the SA border. Although it's a lot of driving I've enjoyed the nullabor. Although it's incredibly rugged there's so much life here, lots of plants (all shades of muddy green) birds (lots of crows and butcher birds feeding off the roadkill) and insects (many flies). The enormous flat stretches are mind bending, it must have been some feat
to build the road through here. So yeah, not long left of this trip at the rate I'm going, but all good things come to and end, don't they?
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