Mon, 10th Nov, 2025 Bush camp, 52 Peg Lookout, east of Border Village to Cohens Old School Site, west of Penong, SA (Nullarbor golfing)

The wind blew all night. 14 degree min, still cloudy and the wind not so strong. One more photo.

Back to the Eyre Highway and continued eastward to the next lookout. This is an official lookout with pathway and platform.

Onto the next lookout for another look. Had a cuppa first in the carpark and chatted with a couple from Mackay. Down the path to the lookout - not so good shooting into the sun. No whales to see today. This is where Steve and Malcolm took their photo - they had the sun in the west.

As we were taking our photos a chap offered to take the 4 of us together. On Sandy’s phone he showed her how to get better clarity etc as we were shooting into the sun. He said he was a professional photographer before he retired. Very helpful. Certainly made a difference compared to my camera.

Continued eastward but we are turning away from the coast now. No trees here but this isn’t part of the treeless plain.

Passed the eastern end of the old Nullarbor Road (dirt track created in 1870) as we enter the treeless plain as we near the Nullarbor Roadhouse (2.92c/l for diesel - we didn’t get any). They built the new bitumen road (1976) to provide a more direct route and to provide access to the scenic coastal areas.

Quick photo of the Big Whale as we drove around to the golf hole.

A bit of colour near the beware of animal sign.

Great mural.

The old roadhouse and Eyre Highway info.

Spotted a dingo wandering through the car park.

Then we saw the dingo sign.

Nice murals in the van park. Only one van parked up here at the moment.

Found the hole - now to find the tee - it is a long way over towards the homestead. This magpie appears hurt but we think it might just be distracting us from it’s young so we left it alone.

Walked across the ‘air strip’ till we found the tee.

Long way back - this will take a lot of hits and lots of laughter.

Found a bob-tail while we were looking for our balls.

Steve found his about to disappear down a wombat hole.

We let him shift it.

A lot of hits later we made it to the hole. The dingo came out to see what we were doing. The magpie wasn’t happy about it and with his partner they dive bombed the dingo till it left.

We got to finish our game then.

Some funny drawings in the camp kitchen as we walked back to our vehicles.

I chatted with a chap who was charging up his electric car - using the power of a diesel generator. He said there should be solar panels here but obviously they weren’t working.

Had lunch then continued eastward. The clouds are thinning as we continue across the treeless plain then passed the turn off to the Head of Bight Centre. We visited it on our way over in 2016. Passed the eastern end sign of the treeless plain.

Pulled off to let a wide load pass us. Back into trees and rolling over low hills now.

Big long climb up this hill - up to 135m elevation from the 40m we were before.

Continued rolling up and down the hills till we reached Yalata Roadhouse (193.9c/l). A new one just off the highway. I think when we came over you had to go into the community to get fuel. We didn’t need any so continued on.

Across the grid of the Dog Fence. Info off Wikicamps - the 5,400 km long dog fence protects sheep grazing districts from dingoes and wild dogs. It stretches across SA from the Great Australian Bight near Fowlers Bay, borders the grazing properties into NSW then turns north and east across Qld to the Darling Downs. It is the longest continuous fence in the world.

Farms and grain fields start to appear through the trees. Into Nundroo Roadhouse (193.9c/l) and topped up the diesel. More blue sky now but it is still windy. Played another hole of golf with more laughter. Tom played this time.

I lost my ball near Wally’s home. Not sure if it went in there but I had a spare ball so just continued on from there.

Tom finished off well. Steve nearly got it in.

Two more couples arrived for a hit. One chap could play and the other couple were like us - having fun. Had a cuppa then continued east to find a camp for tonight.

Spotted some old brick building in fields. Saw our first wombat - sadly he was dead by the road. Passed the turn off to Fowlers Bay which we visited before. We had taken the coast road so we hadn’t driven this next bit of the highway - a new bit to mark off in my map book. Saw our first livestock - a sheep.

Continued on to Cohens old school site - plenty of room.

We think this must have been the school building. Grain field beside it.

Chatted over drinks as other travellers pulled in for the night. Started to get too cold by 7pm (actually 6pm) so we headed inside for dinner. Used up all my vegetables today so we are all good for the Quarantine stop tomorrow at Ceduna.