Hi John and Anne ..

It's a great trip to do .. and I suppose we all have our preferences as to whether or not we find it boring ..

.. and Chris is quite right .. Cactus Beach certainly can turn on the waves. There are (3) main breaks there being Castles, Caves and Cactus.
'Castles' was quite unique as it was easily rideable at 5 mtrs as it was held together by the seaweed ..

we are really still in a lucky country ..

Jon

(Casino, NSW)

Hi Jon if your at Casino drop in and see Hotrodbus , Chris and Robbie, parked up on the right after you enter the gates. Can't miss the bus and the hot rod will be there if they are not at work. Nicest pair you would want to meet. Hope to catch up with you shortly. Johnw

This country across the bottom changes every 100 or so kms, and the seasons will also bring about lots of changes. Dry and dusty, green and wet, a combination of both, wildflowers and wildlife including wombats, camels and roos. Especially if there's feed around, and along the edges of the black top. There's scenery both sides of the highway, other vehicles, the roadhouses are unique establishments by virtue of their locations. It's always different, but never boring. The only people I've heard of being bored with any travel anywhere are those who sit in the front passenger seat all day and read. READ! What are they thinking? It must be a lonely trip for the driver though.

Hi JohnW ..

Caught up briefly with Chris & Robbie last night .. great people .. will catch up with them again during my stay here.
May be here for up to 2 weeks as trying to reorganise a few things before heading down to Bingara to setup a bush-base for Radio Club skeds ..

will advise !

Jon  (in Casino)

We left Perth in august '08 and stayed at Big Valley campground just south of Margaret river, excellent place its a working sheep station, with powered sites huge camp kitchen and camp fire every night older facilitys but very clean and was  only about $12 a night heaps to see in this area and not a huge distance between sites. Also stayed at Fraser Ranger station excellent spot. We camped at Yalata for 10 days its about 50kls west of Nundroo and at Phildappa rock  near Poochera for another 2 weeks all these spots are in your camp bible. Have fun and enjoy.

Yalata is shut down as a roadhouse and park. From what I've seen there's no free camping there in your own best interest. I seriously recommend against parking there. Apparently the r/house owner was sick of complaints about the "locals" begging cash, smokes and drinks as they left the premises, so he shut it down and boarded it up. I believe the Yalata community is using the property for something which doesn't include the road house. They were using the building I noticed when driving past in '07. There are some beautiful places to visit on the Eyre Peninsula. As you say, along the "top" road through Wudinna to Kyancutta, and also through Streaky Bay to Pt. Lincoln. There are a lot of ocean panaramas, Murphy's Haystacks, Elliston, Sheringa Beach east of Elliston. And just think of the fishing you could do if that's your thing. Fresh fish every day. That'd give the cholesterol its marching orders. OUT! I forgot the oyster farms along the coast from Denial Bay, west of Ceduna, around the peninsula to Cowell. Don't forget about Coffin Bay - more oysters and whiting. There's a lot of history in that region as well. And don't forget the stories of abalone poachers and drug "farming". Sorry, I won't bore you anymore, but I could..........

-- Edited by Cruising Granny on Wednesday 27th of January 2010 06:53:13 PM

When we drove across towards the end of last year we didn't park at the Yalata Roadhouse.

Good advice about all of it. At least with Marsh Flies, they're so slow you can reduce the population easily. I haven't been able to find anything to keep them off entirely. Even vitamin B doesn't deter them. At least the bites don't itch or get sore - well, for me anyway. The Nullarbor is a very interesting landscape. Numerous limestone caves and sink holes further north. Cavers have navigated a few of them, but they are very dangerous and unstable, and there can be a lot of icy cold water down there too. Enjoy the ride.

Correction we didn't camp IN yatala itself we stayed at the Yatala west rest area in camps 3 book it is on page 280 number 658, you are able to go in well off  the road very good.