Mundrabilla Road House

Today we traveled 800 km to Mundrabilla. In the morning I got up at 3 minutes to 6. Then Mum made breakfast and she complained that it wasn’t even light yet. We were driving by 8:30. We drove to a petrol station just up the road. While Dad filled up, Andrea and I cleaned the windows and windscreen. We were on the road again in no time and we soon we passed our first real road train. It had 3 trailers as (in my opinion) a road train should have.

We kept driving until we reached Ceduna. This town revolves around oysters. Dad filled up while the rest of us went to the toilet. When I got back to the car I found Dad loaded up with our morning tea. He had bought a chocolate doughnut, an apple turnover, an apricot slice and a cream filled doughnut. We shared the food around and Andrea managed to peel all of the of the dough off her bit of chocolate doughnut. I shared the apple turnover with Dad and also had a bit of chocolate doughnut myself. Mum enjoyed her apricot slice. Andrea shared the cream filled doughnut with Mum.

We reached the Nullarbor. In case you don’t know what the Nullarbor is, it is a massive stretch of road between Ceduna and Norsman. It is 1215 km from end to end. We drove to the Nullarbor Roadhouse and had lunch there. I was amazed at the amount of trucks and road trains that were there. At least 10 trucks came and left in the half hour that we were there. Thats if you don’t count the two trucks that pulled in at the same time as us.

Just before we left a road train with three trailers pulled out of the truck parking spot. Dad and I counted the gears the as driver was changing, we counted up to 9 before it was even out of the truck parking spot. As it accelarated away we started to count the gears again. This time we got up to eleven before the truck got out of earshot. When we left the Nullarbore Roadhouse we quickly caught up with the road train that had needed nine gears to pull out of the truck parking spot.

Dad overtook him and then, just as we were picking up speed again we got stuck behind a tanker truck with a sign that said oversize. We couldn’t overtake because the tank and trailer were so wide. We couldn’t slow down either because we had two trucks behind us. We were stuck doing 90 km/h until we reached Bunda cliffs. Bunda cliffs is a place on the Great Australian Bight where you can camp for the night for free. We camped there last trip. This time though a short stop to take some photos was all we did.

On the way to Border village we ate all our remaining fruit. When we arrived at the border Dad and I were all set to unhitch the caravan so the officials could take a look through our fridge/freezer. But that didn’t happen this time. Last trip we had to unhitch the caravan so that the officials guy could check our fridge/freezer. All that we had to do was show the officials woman through the caravan. Then we were all set to go. I took a photo of the S.A and W.A sign.

Then we drove the remaining 140 km to Mundrabilla. When we arrived we refueled the car. As we were washing the windscreen Andrea and I didn’t see Dad returning with what he described as ‘the biggest Jam Drops he had ever seen‘. Then we drove the caravan to the back of the roadhouse and set up the caravan. While Mum and Andrea checked out the toilets Dad and I got the caravan ready for the night. Once again I didn’t unhitch the caravan because we are leaving tomorrow morning. Then Mum started to cook dinner. While dinner was being prepared Dad and I had a look at the photos that he and I had taken throughout the day. After that we did some work on my iPod and I added some new audio books to my library. Then Mum told us that we would have to move the laptop so we could have dinner. For dinner we had fried Italian sausages with mashed potato. The mashed potato was a bit lumpy because we had to prepare it before we reached the border or they would have confiscated our potatoes. But it still tasted alright though. After dinner we had the jam drops. They were really big, about as big as the end of a fly swat. After dessert I started wrote my blog and went to bed.

Italian.

Ciao La mia familia andare Western Australia.

Oggi la mia familia crossed the border.