Hi and a big welcome to the Steve's kitchen travelpod casts. We're actually
driving way out in the outback, sorry for the noise of the car. I don't think it
sounded too bad, we played it back didn't we
Yeah it didn't sound too bad a little bit of background noise
So Michele and I are driving from
Ceduna to Panong
I was thinking more for Melbourne to Perth
oh yes
but we've been it we're driving all the way across Australia we've got
about maybe two and a half thousand kilometers left and we're somewhere out
in the, way in the outback between Ceduna and
Panong
Where are we Michele?
umm Mount Kerang Reservoir camping ground
Mount Kerang
Now these are, these are free camping grounds, wow that's low, it is low isn't it
He said it was low
got the broom out, she's clearing the ground, you don't want to be camping
under these trees up here because they do they do tend to self prune during the
night, you'll get branches. So we'll keep forward, away from, away from the
trees. Car's looking beautiful. Lakes out here, hope the wind is okay, it could be
Skinner's reservoir. So this whole area is free camping it's beautiful, we've got
the got the water, get some Sunnies out. So
how about this, it's gorgeous. Some water supplies and there's some
toilets just down there. Some people have bought some little
boats, some Tinnies, there's a little island out here, this is where we've decided to
stop for the night, got a little alcove, a little, a little clearing of trees in
there and we stopped nice and early because we don't want to, we don't want
to drive, drive too late. This whole journeys going to be, oh the cars getting
dirty. So I'm going to help Michele clear some of the ground before we put the tent up
Are we set up Stephen?
Two second tent
self-inflating mattress a couple of armchairs, its all good
There's quite a few different
variations of camper, little dog under the the camper van there.
So when we set out this morning we had no idea this place existed and people keep
saying where are you going, we said we didn't really know, we just head off, find
a place. We found a place, this is a nice stop.
Probably got about two or three other options in the area. There's quite a wind
blowing off across the water, so it's kicking up, it's kicking up all the dust
somebody's got a little tinny here, they've weight, weighted it down. I've turned my camera
around. Is the wind been up like this for a while? just today yeah?
So a nice group, they're just telling me the wind is just up tonight, it wasn't, it
wasn't as windy the last few days. They've been here, sharing a few tinnies
set around a little campfire there and they reckon it'll probably drop down.
There's a rowdy bunch of lads right at the end there, there are always going to be
somebody, give them their dues, god I'm dry - give them their dues, they've
they've gone to the far end and crossed over the water.
See if I can show you, now a bit of a party going on down there
but it's a bank holiday weekend it's going to happen, as long as they're far
enough away, that we're not going to hear them, I'm all good.
It's been fascinating and if you look out on the plain so I'm trying to explain
visually to you what it looks. Like in the US you have these sort of huge
open plains up near Utah and what's that County
Oregon
Oregon the one
I get told off for pronouncing wrong Oregon or Oregon. When we were driving in
from Oregon to Oregon to I'm going to pronounce it the way I do when we're
driving from Oregon and we came in to Albuquerque, there's a lot of beautiful
open farmland it's very similar out here in Bushland Australia, you've got these
vast open areas of plain lands, some of them are farmed, some of them are not
farmed and we're not a we're not a way way off the coast. Actually in Ceduna
just now we were on the coast.
I think we're just at the beginning of what they
call the Australian Bight the bit that goes up a bit, we're going across.
okay
so it was that the Australian bight that we were at Ceduna just now do you think
yes I think there's the start, the start because you've got the Adelaide
which has got that Peninsula bit that you go across, it's what they call the
Australian bite
The Great Australian Bight
I think so and it's looks like
someone's taking a bite out of Australia
yep look they're going they're running
They're trying to get it
we are trying to blog these emus, look at the files can
you see, can you see the amount of flies on me
hundreds and hundreds of flies, thousands and thousands of the little blighters.
I'm going to take this up, get an aerial
Now the road ahead of me by the way
wow that's straight
it is so so straight
like the old Roman roads we used to call them but I can see off into the the
distance maybe I don't know how many kilometers or miles but as far as the
eye can see I can see the road ahead of me and it's straight, bar a little bit of
a curve. Now I just waved to one of the very few vehicles that passed, you don't
see many vehicles out here but there is a tendency for everybody to give a
little sort of hello wave and we have this saying Michele and I, truck or
traveler
some of the trucks will wave
most of the
trucks they're on a working sort of route, so they're probably not going to
wave every time. I'll wave to this one, there's one just coming up here now, it's
a big yellow one, a bit like us. Now that there is a road train it's
probably about four carriages long, they're a little bit like a regular
articulated truck but they've got extra carriages because they're doing this
long journey between sort of Western Australia and southern Australia. I think
it's more economic if they're carrying more trailers with them.
you just stopped
in that last little town and Steve asked when the next big town would be and they
said well there isn't really one, Norseman's the next one and that's about how
long away
Norsemans about a thousand or so kilometers away from here.
So there are no really sizable towns apparently between us and there and
we've got to keep a little lookout for the cost of fuel. I think we've got
another town coming up which we just mentioned which is Panong. There's, the
fuel there is not too bad, it would probably be about 1.40 Australian dollars
per litre and past there it starts to get up to this sort of $2 a litre price
So you are getting stung by close to sort of
60 maybe 70 percent on top of the regular price of fuel but you can kind
of understand it. I was thinking this the other day, a truck that has to deliver
fuel out to these very remote fuel stations on the Nullarbor, they can't
really deliver to sort of half a dozen stations, so they're literally having to do
this drive out here just to supply fuel to maybe one or two stations. So it's
kind of understandable that the price is high. Now we're just coming up to another
camper definitely not a truck, so we'll just hold up and see if they're going to
give us a little wave. What do you reckon Michele?
Umm yes
You think so
Yes
I think he did just
out the side of the window there. Now when I first noticed this I started
waving back to people, and several of them, several of them didn't wave to me and I thought ahh
this is bit of a bummer I'm waving to all these people
and then you didn't
wave for the next three and they all wave to you
it's going to happen
So it's a long drive, we've been driving four days already, we've probably done
about on average maybe five to six hours driving each day
we've still probably got four or five days left of driving do you think Michele?
I think so yeah
We're not trying to actually kill ourselves with the driving we just keep it to a
fair minimum and tonight we're actually going to stop you know the name of the
place we're stopping tonight.
now I did know it, its the Bunda cliffs
Bunda Cliffs
Bunda Cliffs
Yes
Can you see? Down there, look out along those.
we're actually on a little camp it's not really a camp , Michele doesn't like, she doesn't
like the edge. What have you found? I wonder oh thats slightly sticky or is it just me?
I think its the salt
Swifts and swallows I think that's a Swift possibly, possibly a swift. We're on these,
we're just behind these dunes. There's actually somebody stopped up with a
caravan just over here. I think the wind will be too much for you to be able to
hear me, the Sun is going down I've got another hour and a half maybe of
sunlight. So we'd better get set up, get ready for, find somewhere to put down our
little tent.
Behind a dune
behind the dunes as Michele says, so
this particular free campsite is about three hours west of us and it's
apparently really nice it's in amongst the sand dunes, beautiful views, all the
reviews are really great
because the Bunda cliffs are the longest
uninterrupted cliff face in the world apparently that's what I've read so
Well you can check that for us and see whether or not it is but they say
they're the longest uninterrupted cliff face in the world and we're going to
stop very close to the beginning of those have an overnight there and about
three hours time should give us, we'll be there about 6:30 - 7 o'clock this evening,
travel permitting. Now the speeds out here for those of you that are interested and
I'm going to do it in kilometers an hour because that's what we use here in
Australia, you'll have to convert it to miles an hour if you wish to because oh I
can do that on my car quickly. So about 70 miles an hour,110 kilometres an hour
on most of the roads out here
occasionally slows to 80 where the train
track crosses the road
yeah so if you come across a rail crossing they ask you
to slow down obviously because the rail crossings out here don't often
have barriers. So you do have to keep a lookout for the Train
so they ask you just slow down and we're still on that same straight road,
as far as the eye can see at the moment. There's a little split between the trees,
there's been a few signs up saying look out the Kangaroos. Now I think people who
come to Australia are always fascinated by the kangaroo, sadly when you drive in the
outback the most likely chance of you seeing kangaroos will be the many dozens
of dead kangaroos there are on the roadsides.
There are a lot of kangaroos getting hit and I think it's why it's quite
dangerous to drive at dusk and nighttime so Michele and I also we like to get
stopped before the end of the evening.
We actually haven't seen many kangaroos yet have we
not standing around
we've seen a Emus
we've seen Emus we've seen sheep
we've seen a lot of sheep and cattle
we did see the lone bull
there was a bull on the side
of the road as we came in and we were hoping, in another country we might have
stopped to try and tell the farmer but there didn't seem to be a building within
maybe maybe 50 K's of of that particular bull there was nothing, there
wasn't even an another herd of bulls nearby
No cows he'd been for
a long walk I reckon
So he was just on the roadside he appeared like a sort
of black mist in the distance and as we got closer we realized that um he was a
lone bull and probably escaped from one of the crossing areas, there are sheep
now to the right of me and if I look out, if I look out to my right away from the
microphone, as far as the eye can see, there are open fields. There are some
sheep in the fields very close to us on the left-hand side it looks a bit
cultivated land but it's a little bit hard to tell what. You were saying before
Michele you thought they were being they were being planted
but I don't know
what with I that can't work out wether they are cultivated or not
but it looks like they've been plowed and something's being planted but I'm not sure
what not there's no irrigation we were saying is there
it's not a lot of the
the western plains of the US they have a lot of big irrigation arms. Now I'm not
sure if it's because the fields here are too big, I mean if I look at this field
to the right of me it's probably thousands upon thousands of acres, so it
would be very hard if or even impractical to water it with an
irrigation unit. You know sometimes you see across the farm is what looks
like a long sort of crawling framework of
a watering system that sort of creeps across the lawn or sometimes you see
them like a big round arm that sort of swings around and you see a lot of that
in Europe. I've seen them also in the US, I haven't seen any of that out here
as we come towards the Nullarbor and I think actually the Nullarbor, which means by the
way no trees, so void of any trees. I'm not sure we will let you know maybe in
the next podcast whether or not that has any
what's the word I'm looking for farming
agriculture
agricultural
activity
so I'm trying to do this podcast without having to break and pause. So I'm going
to have to talk and talk oh a bit a landfill there just to the left of us,
there was a huge great big crater in the field and it was just full of raw iron
sort of corrugated tin
just looking to see if anybody is living around here but there is there's a
building up there it said the old church and schoolhouse.
Okay so there's an old church oh there's a little community a little commune to
our right that's probably the first building we've seen in the last sort of
20, 20 minutes to half an hour. There's a number of crows nests in the trees we do
yeah we do get a lot of crows nests we do get a lot of very noisy crows in the
in the outback. Which is a bit of a shame because they do tend to wake you up in
the morning and in the very early parts of the
morning, you just have to get used to that. Now the we're not talking about
lush green meadows here, everything is quite brown and dry looking and
towards on the edge of the roads there is a number of what look like a
eucalypt trees, maybe a young gum tree but I think
they're eucalypt and this is the danger on little stretches we've just come across
now where there's a lot of density of forest alongside the edge of the road,
kangaroos can actually come up out of this bush land and come out onto the
road and give you a bit of a shock.
there is a fence running along
of wires I wouldn't call it a fence it's three wires.
Quite often you'll see that, electrified fences or just fencing whether
they're for cattle to keep in or whether it's to keep
This fields been ploughed
definitely being plowed
beautiful field, lovely little trees in the middle and I imagine that's to
encourage wildlife in amongst the the crops. Quite often a little bit like you
see in any agriculture area you'll see a sort of symbiotic relationship between
the farmers using plants and trees to help encourage pollenization of the crops.
So you'll see that for almost no reason at all, they leave certain trees laying in
amongst the middle of the field or often at the end of the the furrows
they'll leave flowers growing to encourage bee and pollenization. We
Now all the time you've been talking we're still passing the same field
yeah all
that time just one field
just one field and we're still going
and it's a long way yet I mean if I were to
and say a distance I really couldn't. I could probably test and test it on my
speedometer, tachometer. I'm very dry since we've been
driving Michele I've been so dry
There's a fence so thats the end we didn't get the beginning of that
so maybe that maybe about four kilometers wide but I mean out looking
away from us I can't see the end it's just miles upon miles of open
uninterrupted land with the same little trees here there and everywhere
and no farmhouse so I don't know where the farmer lives
in his tractor
should be more knowledgeable about this we're not
really letting people understand what's going on.
I know that in the earlier stages where we saw this it was a lot of wheat
growing. We can see evidence of wheat fields. Now
we're coming up to a vehicle ahead of us, a slow-moving wide, could be a road
train but it seems to be going a little bit slower because I'm gaining on it and
it's I think it's an agricultural vehicle because it's got the hoppers on
the back. So we're going to have to make manoeuvre and overtake and when you need
to overtake out here it's not too difficult you're, you're pretty commonly
coming across long stretches of land with
dotted lines down the center which means you can overtake and also you can see
often for many kilometers ahead of you. So you can, you can make that decision to
overtake. So it's a big yellow vehicle similar
colors to our jeep, we've seen several of these now and it's possibly a truck
towing maybe four articulated units or trailers
probably going around about 90 to a 95 kilometers because we're gaining on it
at some speed
Now that's what I was fearing a little bit by doing a podcast in the car that it
gets a little bit dry and I'm um that will end up with these long sort of
pregnant pauses where it's going to be a little bit quiet. I'm going to speed up a
little bit because the train in front is coming to a long
long Bend and I want to get around him before we get to the bend. So I'm going
to take it up to about 125 -130 maybe kilometers now, which is above the speed
limit but because we've got to overtake this vehicle, I want to be going past him
at some speed. So he's three trailers long
beautiful. Now there I think there are great grain hoppers
So we're past him now it didn't take long it says Road train.
I think on the Nullarbor, Nullarbor you get um
even longer units than that, so that's got four, three trailers on it. I
think I've seen one with four already.
So it was a good time to overtake him because we've just come to a sort of
blind long blind Bend and there's one of those silos ahead of us.
So we're in grain growing country again because there's this huge silos and a
company called
Vitterra
vita something or another but they seem to be out here controlling most of the
grain silage production and it's interesting because they, they can be
many tens of kilometers apart sometimes even...if you're going to picture in the
background to the left side there's a huge great big building rising out of
the the ground. It's got circular barrels as its main
sort of base there are three of them no there are two of them coming up and two
two deep two wide and with a bit of a sort of
its like a little house on top
roof top like a little house on
top and they're grain silos and we're just coming up to a town, they do tend to be....
just passing the cemetery as well
I think this might be Panong
Do you think this is Panong already
I think so it said Panong back there
so if it is Panong then we've got to be
thinking about buying a little extra Fuel Panong Woolshed so yes we are at
Panong, this is the last opportunity for us to buy reasonably priced fuel before
we get out into the
Australia's biggest windmill
really Australia's biggest wingmill
now it can't be that one there there are a lot of little wind pumps you
know for bringing up water from the wells they quite this several of
actually there are dozens and dozens of them
Maybe it said windmills maybe it's got
lots here and thats why
yeah but they're actually functioning they're actually turning and
they've all got pumps they've all got piping connected to the bottom so
they're pumping water up from the wells for irrigation. So it's Viterra written on
the side of the building, the big silos is Viterra
Panong the Gateway to the Nullarbor
okay so we're really getting to the beginning of our journey on the
Nullarbor, I am going to, we're coming down to 50 kilometres an hour now in the
town, just passing the police station and I think it's time for us to say goodbye.
We're going to pop in it's a hundred, $1:39 for fuel, so a little higher than
the last town but not too bad at all. I'm probably going to be able to squeeze in
another sort of maybe ten dollars or so of fuel before we get out into the
Nullarbor and once we're actually there the prices are going to be, well your
guess is as good as mine
but if we need it we'll have to buy it
so talk to you
all later, be good, see you on the next podcast. Just let me know if you enjoyed
this by the way hopefully it's not too, too irregular and take care.
bye
so I'm
going to close the vlog off, this chapter of the drive across Australia. We're
actually in CedUna here, Ceduna is the last sort of minor town, major town
before we actually hit the Nullarbor and you can see it's beautiful
coastal town it's got, there aren't any big supermarkets, there's a, what do they call it
Foodland or something like that, so no Woollies, no IGA is as far as I know and
there might be an IGA and that's it we've come all the way Adelaide
Melbourne, we actually skipped Adelaide and went inland and we're heading that
way to Perth. I think we've got a another couple of thousand kilometers to go.
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