Across The Nullabor: Day 1

Kliff was meant to be in Mildura working towards his second visa but Mildura has a way of making you drink lots of goon and he also sliced his knee open in the shower so he couldn't work so him and his mate Tim met me in Adelaide and we did the 2600km drive to Perth across the vast expanse of Bum Fuck nothingness that is The Nullabor.

On account of the fact that it was a damn sight harder to say bye to Toni than it was meant to be and the need to drink copious amounts of tea to function correctly in the morning we left the lads hostel a little later than planned but we were soon on the road and heading 300km north to Port Augusta.
Yeah, I know Perth is west, tell that to the bastard who put the large body of water in the way.

We stopped in Port Augusta, re-fuelled, stocked up on food and beer then promptly broke down about 9km out because something had gone tits up with the electrics. As soon as I switched the lights on all the needles went mental and the car tried to cut out so we headed back to Port Augusta and got it looked at. Something had snapped off on the battery, one of the connecter thingy wotsits and it was only $35 to put right, I was looking at it the other day and it had white stuff all over it so I'd tipped water on it. I told Kliff, he blinked, looked at me like I was tapped and said, "You poured water on a battery?!"

Halfway Across Australia... Roughly

Oh come on, I have breasts, they cause me to look at mechanical things and think, "Oooh, lets make it shiny!"

Anyway, all good, it just put us back a bit so we camped at Kimba which has a Big Galah and the somewhat dubious claim of being Halfway Across Australia. Lord only knows where they're measuring from. New Zealand, prehaps.

written by  Koala Bear on November 21, 2006 from Kimba, Australia
from the travel blog: Sod Off Great Big Mission Round Oz
tagged RoadTrip and LovinIt
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