DAY 189 Thursday 28th January 1999
Yesterday I kept myself busy with the computer on my lap as David drove. I transferred all our fuel data to a spreadsheet and made some graphs and tables to show the variances and averages for our diesel consumption. We're running at about 6.19km/litre (19.05litres/100km) which is less than expected but things like towing a trailer, strong winds and lots of sand driving all chew the fuel. Oh, we've just passed
Yalata - very exciting. Think I'll play some computer games. I don't sleep when we are travelling in the car but if you did you could easily sleep this whole trip across the Nullarbor and not miss anything!
We arrived in
Ceduna - the end of the Nullarbor and took stock of where we were, where we were going and what we needed. Unfortunately, it is Thursday and all the Aboriginals have come into town to collect their dole cheques. They were drunk and arguing and it was not a nice place to be. Pity, because the town itself looks very pleasant.
We began to drive down the Eyre Penninsula (
Ceduna - Point Lincoln 700km) and made our lunch stop at
Smoky Bay. The highway bypasses all the little fishing towns so we were selective as to which towns we visited. We found the cliffs and
views around the
Streaky Bay area magnificent and found a great free
beach camp where we fished and beachcombed before dinner (Chicken Korma and Jasmine rice).