Crossing the Nullabor

We were woken early with vehicles coming and going and road trains thundering past. We had fruit for breakfast in a bid to use up what we could before quarantine at the boarder. The scenery became more desert like with less trees and very little else except lots of dead roos on the road. In between DVDs the kids managed to do some schoolwork. We fueled up at Mundrabilla which was the most expensive fuel we have seen at 199.5. We had a little bit of phone reception so managed to ring Rick's mum for her birthday - Happy Birthday Wendy! Another milestone - the GPS showed 2000 kilometers to go! We crossed the boarder into South Austrlia and lost 1 1/2 hours. We stopped at the first lookout for views over the Great Australian Bight - it was quite misty and overcast. We decided to camp at 'Koonalda' which was 14km inland on a bumpy, well worn track. We weren't sure what to expect and arrived to find lots of rusting, old car bodies and the homestead which was built in 1938 from old railway sleepers. Koonalda Homestead was a service point for travellers along the Old Eyre Highway. Over the years, it became a graveyard for vehicles that broke down in the harsh landscape. It was really interesting and quite eerie walking around all the old car bodies - hard to believe people at the time attempted crossing the Nullabor in some of these cars on what would have been a dirt track at the time.