Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Cocklebiddy to Border Village 23/5

We departed Cocklebiddy just after 8am. With the Eyre Bird Observatory as our destination, the turn off is supposed to be 11km from Cocklebiddy. By the time we had traveled 13km all we had seen was a track without signs and thought that must be it, so we tuned back and followed it south to the coast. It is only a track, we thought they had exagerated the meaning of unsealed road. :)
After following this track quite some distance, passing a couple of caves and the trees narrowing in on the track, we were wondering how people would get there caravans down to where the 4wd track starts. Then all of a sudden we come out on to an unsealed road, :) ,a sign saying "Eyre 17km", 12km of that is to be sandy 4wd track.
We got to the sand track and let the tyres down to the resquested to 20 psi.
We follow this track to the beach, knowing the caretakers to be out. We were mainly going to see the ocean, which cold and messy. The observatory is one of the original telegraph huts.We followed the correct unsealed road back to the highway.Next onto Madura Pass, somehow we were on the tableland which descends onto the plain that reach to the Southern Ocean.We then carried onto Mundrabilla, where we stopped for a late lunch.Off Eucla,where went down to the beach side ruins of another telegraph hut.We finally carried on to Border Village, to stop and sleep. Here obviously pass into SA and we have to put watches forward another 45mins to make up to SA time.

Tomorrow off to Ceduna.

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