Hooray for WA Day 17 Start of the Old Eyre Highway in from Border Village to Scott Point

We had a later start due to the time change.

We travelled the length of the the Old Eyre Highway between our campsite just past Border Village to Nullarbor.

We stopped for morning tea at Koonalda Homestead (flavored tuna and lettuce on vita weets) and had a look around with Joc, then continued on and had our lunch by the old tank where we camped on the way over.

Just a short distance on from Nullarbor we turned in towards the head of the bight and were excited to see that the sign on the entrance showed 10 whales had been seen today! We were happy to pay our entrance fee to access the viewing platforms so that we could see the view along the cliffs to the west and the sand hills and white beaches to the east as well as the whales. It's hard to know how many whales we saw - maybe half a dozen- but we definitely saw large and small together (we assumed mother and calf) as well as other large whales. Mostly they were under the water, but sometimes they seemed to lay on the surface of the water and just cruise along.

Eventually we thought we had better get on our way. We headed for Fowlers Bay, finding a bush beach campsite indicated close to there in our campsite book. unfortunately all we knew was that the turn off was off of the Coorabie to Fowlers Bay road, but there was no signage, so we made it all the way in to Fowlers Bay in the darkening gloom, not finding the campsite. Luckily when we got there we found public toilets for a comfort stop and also a enough phone coverage to use our camped app, and find some coordinates for the campsite. Then we backtracked 13 km to the correct turnoff and guessed the track in from there, enduring the worst corrugations of the holiday in the process. Eventually we found a small bush camping site with already one an and one tent already setup in a sandy basin between sandhills.

The sliver of moon was already going down so we had a magnificent starry night sleeping to the sound of the waves on the beach on the other side of the hills.... Just about perfect.