Octagon January, 2017

Warwick had played golf on a rifle range!
Just as we were leaving to go to the golf
course who should we see again but the two
policemen from yesterday. We exchanged
greets. As we headed towards Nullarbor,
after our exciting golf sojourn, we came to
the state border of Western Australia and
South Australia, where we were met with a
road block. It was the same two policemen
and this time they were checking licences,
recording number plates, and doing
breathalisers – both ways. What a wonderful
place for a surveillance point, as there
weren’t too many other roads that one could
take in this area. We have no problems with
this type of check point – if it can help keep
check on criminals.
After the check point and some photos at
the Border Village of things like the three
clocks with different time zones at this point,
we had smoko at the Roadhouse and guess
who turned up again. The two policemen!.
Seems like they have a big area to cover
and can range from one state to the other
quite freely if the need arises.
At Border Village, we were now about a
quarter of our way home!
16 Juiana and Warwick at the edge of the
earth on the Nullarbor
Nullarbor
Even though the distance from Eucla to
Nullarbor was not great we decided to allow
a day for this stretch of the trip as Juliana &
Warwick had never been across this area
and we wanted to spend as much time as
we could at each lookout across the Great
Australian Bight appreciating the majesty of
the Baxter Cliffs.
We were in luck - the weather was perfect
and the time of the tide appeared right also
as white scallop like lines appeared , caused
by wave action, around each headland
contrasting with the azure blue water.
Picture perfect as one might say.
That night we stayed at the Nullarbor Road
House Motel. We wanted to stay here so
that our visitors could soak up the NON
atmosphere (vacuum) of the Nullarbor.
For when you turned your back on the
roadhouse this was the true Nullarbor. The
horizon was flat, no trees, no buildings, no
people, nothing except for some low growing
bushes.
The golf tee at Nullarbor was on the airstrip!
This was Warwick’s first time that he had
played golf on an airstrip. A first for most
people I would have said.
Head of the Bight
A side shoot after we left Nullarbor
Roadhouse was into a relatively new
Aboriginal Interpretive Centre right on the
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