Adelaide To Perth

The minute we left Adelaide it became less and less populated until it was only us and the Australian wilderness. We drove towards Flinders Ranges national park passing a beautiful landscape on the way. We stopped in a small ghost town called Hawker and spent the night there in a deserted caravan park, where we had dinner with one of the best sunsets we saw in Australia.














The next morning we drove to the national park and climbed the Ohlssen Bagge mountain, which was exactly what we had in mind when we imagined Australia's landscape.










































Red kangaroos can be seen in the park, but we weren't lucky this time. Anyway, we met other friends on the way.




























We kept driving to the Eyre highway - the 1650km road which connects South Australia to West Australia. This is one endless road without many things to see on the way. It took us 4 days to complete it. The first night we spent at a free camp area in a town called Kimba. It was a paradise for campers - clean toilets, picnic tables, gas BBQ and lights, all for free!
A lot of motorbike riders were on the highway. At first it was a funny sight - people in their 60's riding a heavy motorbike, dressed with heavy weird coats.














We saw them on every gas station we stopped. Then it became annoying - they were always in big groups and somehow managed to arrived few minutes before we did. We had to wait about 15-20 minutes in a queue to the fuel pump every time. They even drained a gas station once before we even manage to fuel our car.
Later we've been told that all of them were heading to Albany, a city in WA, where a big convention was about to took place.
Another thing we noticed was the amount of dead kangaroos on the road every 500m. It became a routine to see them. We quickly found out the reason for all the dead kangaroos - the road trains. A road train is a 3 wagons truck driving like crazy day and night, and they don't stop no matter what's on their way. We felt so vulnerable every time a truck like this was on the opposite direction, and even more when they overtook us.
We spent most of the nights camping in rest areas along the way (except for 1 night in a caravan park in Penong).
One viewpoint worth mentioning is the Bunda Cliffs.














The road ended in a town called Norseman. Next stop was Esperance and Cape Le Grand national park. The two major highlights of the park are Lucky Bay - a beautiful white sand beach,




























and Frenchman's Peak - a mountain which provides views of the park from it's top.










































We kept going west through Stirling Range national park in which we climb Bluff Knoll mountain. It was quite cloudy and chilly that day, and for few minutes it felt like New Zealand, with all the green mountains around us.










































Next we visited "Valley of the Giants" - a board walk built using bridges and poles between huge trees.



















A little wine and food tasting in Margaret River region (free wine, free chocolate, free cheese - when traveling with a poor budget like we do, free it's like a treasure!) and we were on our way to Perth.
We spent one night in Perth waiting for our car to be fixed. It supposed to be 2-3 hours of a standard 5000km service and turned out to be building the car from scratch.
Perth seemed like a nice city but we prefer to reduce our cities time as little as we can.
It was in Perth when we started to feel the real Australian hot temperature, we learned that 35C considered nice chilly day.

As we promised - our campervan in a day mode,














in a night mode














and the kitchen.