Anticlockwise Adventure!

[RichardMcN]

WA is a big, big, big, big state. We have spent well over 3 weeks here, but it is drawing to a close ...

Esperance is lovely. It's the spot where your plane crosses back over land when flying to Perth

Tessie reckons that if they had a bigger pole, the blades would not hit the ground

The centre of Grass Patch

Charging at Norseman, and the start (for us) of @MDK and @Techno-phile 's Nullabor charging route to the east.

Balladonia - home of the Skylab crash!

The littering penalty notice to NASA for the space junk that fell...

Ninety Mile Straight (longest in Aust), which we negotiate at 72km/h in an attempt to cover the 520km stretch from Balladonia to Eucla in one hit without charging.

I never knew this. The Eyre Highway dops off the escarpment for 200km down to a low flat coastal plain.

And relief from the crosswind that has started to cut down our range!


In the distance before us we see the escarpment morph into the Nullarbor sea cliffs

And up the escarpment to Eucla with 2% to spare!

Across the border tomorrow!

 

[Chuq]

And up the escarpment to Eucla with 2% to spare!

Wow... that is NOT a place I would be gambling with range remaining!

 

[*KT*]

Nice work getting to Eucla.
Love the Skylab pics.

Hmmm vanilla slice from a country bakery, magic.

 

[miimura]

Wow... that is NOT a place I would be gambling with range remaining!

I don't think it's gambling. It's probably careful planning and adjusting all along the way.

 

[eclectricdave]

Richard has anyone organised a dinner for you in Melbourne? If not I will arrange. Near Richmond SC? ETA?

 

[RichardMcN]

I don't think it's gambling. It's probably careful planning and adjusting all along the way.

Too right - and often bordering on the paranoid and obsessive !

 

[RichardMcN]

Richard has anyone organised a dinner for you in Melbourne? If not I will arrange. Near Richmond SC? ETA?

Cool - thanks @electricdave , much appreciated. I'm expecting to get to Richmond SC (which will be the completion point of the anticlockwise lap) in the afternoon of Thursday 29th, so maybe that evening.

I have a thought for the perfect octopus based on your work.

@alpal has offered to shout a round, and @Novatec has offered to help drink it, but that's all at this point.

I will be with my 4th and final roadcrew by then (15yo son) so would need to admit under 18's.

Thanks again - cheers!

 

[RichardMcN]

Wow... that is NOT a place I would be gambling with range remaining!

Actually @Chuq I am making it look a bit more marginal than it was. That 2% was after doing extra laps of the pass to look for photo ops and there was a roadhouse 60km back with confirmed 15A, so we left our last turn-back point with 20km to go and just over 40 in the tank!

 

[eclectricdave]

Melbourne Owners
Pl indicate if you want to come to a dinner for Richard & son 29th Sept near RichSC. NB the Saxon (for MDK) was too noisy,

 

[lennier]

I'm a possible at this stage for a dinner on the 29th @electricdave

 

[eclectricdave]

that is eclectricdave

 

[Chuq]

Actually @Chuq I am making it look a bit more marginal than it was. That 2% was after doing extra laps of the pass to look for photo ops and there was a roadhouse 60km back with confirmed 15A, so we left our last turn-back point with 20km to go and just over 40 in the tank!

That's a bit less stressful

Also I don't think anyone has asked the question... when you get to Melbourne... will you be hopping on the ferry and including Tasmania in your circuit?

 

[Novatec]

Melbourne Owners
Pl indicate if you want to come to a dinner for Richard & son 29th Sept near RichSC. NB the Saxon (for MDK) was too noisy,

Yes, myself and wife will come along to greet Richard & new Roadcrew.
Looking forward to it.
Legendary trip Richard.

 

[PJF000]

Pencil me in Dave

 

[lennier]

that is eclectricdave

Oops, typo. At least you saw it!

 

[RichardMcN]

Also I don't think anyone has asked the question... when you get to Melbourne... will you be hopping on the ferry and including Tasmania in your circuit?

Keen to do that around Christmas time @Chuq if the timing works out and there's room on the boat!
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[Kristymay62]

I don't think it's gambling. It's probably careful planning and adjusting all along the way.

 

[Kristymay62]

Exactly, there wasn't a minute of the day not engaged in planning. It was very finely calculated, basically to see if it could be done and how.

 

[RichardMcN]

Will be great to catch up in Melb guys. Thanks for the thought!

Meanwhile the show goes on with a big day on the eastern half of the Nullarbor ...

Eucla Telegraph station at dawn

Eucla Jetty

Laundry charging at Eucla!

Hooray!

If you're clever you can probably calculate where this sign is from the distances.

5 photos already! You can only put 10 in a post so it's a good discipline. Will I cut back on whale shots or cliff shots?

There were about 10 whales visible from the Head of the Bight. Worth the $15! The cliff lookouts are free.

Tessie makes some new friends at Penong!

 

[jeffthewalker]

Meanwhile the show goes on with a big day on the eastern half of the Nullarbor.
Tessie makes some new friends at Penong!

Ahhh. The wonder of the Nullarbor.

Every Australian (and new Australian) should have to do it as part of a citizenship ritual.