RIDING THE NULLARBOR
The sign at Nullarbor Roadhouse warned of kangaroos, wombats and camels on the road ahead. That’s right, camels. I was last here in 1975 when I drove from Sydney to Perth and the Eyre Highway across the Nullarbor was unsealed for 400km from near Ceduna in South Australia to the Western Australia border. It was a rough gravel road with potholes, horrible corrugations and sharp limestone rock edges that destroyed tyres. There were only a couple of widely spaced fuel stops, so you needed to carry fuel and water.
These days the Eyre Highway is a wide, two-lane road with an excellent bitumen surface all the way. However, having just ridden two-up for 2000km from Perth to get here, and having the same distance to go to Sydney, we appreciated that riding across Australia is still a challenge.
WEST TO EAST
Having shipped the Honda ST1300 from Sydney to our son’s place in Perth and flown over, we headed off in mid-October to ride home. We rode up into the Perth Hills on a scenic and twisting road before heading east on a good road to the wheat belt town of Hyden, 350km away, for our first night. Wave Rock is just outside town and is a curved piece of granite 110m
