Didn’t leave camp as early as previously as hi we were off to try and to spot a whale. The place to see them is at the Head of the Australian Bight eastern end of the Bunda Cliffs. Arrived there about 9.30 a twenty min drive from where we stayed last night. We were really too early as there was an early morning build up of clouds and if we had come a little later in the morning the clouds would have lifted by then, then it would have been shining straight into the face of the cliffs.
Walking down to the head of the Bight all well laid with good walkways and lookout platforms.
Look at this one, don’t worry it’s just from a photo that I took. All’s good.
Looking west along the the Bunda cliffs all a continuation from all the cliffs we saw yesterday. The cliffs are composed of limestone, which extends far inland. The cliff face ranges in height from 40 to 80 metres high and stretches from East to West for 800 kilometres. Amazing and some great scenery.
Guess who, having a whale of a time.!!
Looking south out over the Southern Ocean, still looking, trying to spot a whale. Can you see one, no we couldn’t either.
Southern Whales visit the Head of the Bight each year to give birth, and socialise. They are present here from June to October, (that’s why there was no chance of seeing any, but we tried) and then they spend the rest of the time on migration feeding well offshore in the Southern Ocean. Females give birth in an average once every three years to their five metre long calves. By late August visitors commonly see the mothers swimming along the cliffs with their young, would be amazing to see this but as you can see we are way too early in the season to spot them but we still enjoyed the scenery.
Below now looking East up the coast as you can see the cliffs have finished and you can just see the land curving round further out to sea.
Still looking over the Southern Ocean.
These are the walkways down to the looking platforms.
This is another photo I took of a photo to show what you could see later in the year. Wouldn’t that be great.
Now back on the long straight road heading for Ceduna for two nights back out on the coast after mainly been inland and crossing the plains in so much isolation.
We stopped at Penong to have a look at the windmill museum.
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A little bit of wind got up while we were there and it started to turn round for awhile and we could see that it was producing water into the tank below it. It was 11metres in diameter.
Some interesting old windmills which have been donated by people off farms etc.
This is different and moveable.
We have now arrived back to civilisation and settled into a park in Ceduna for two nights to give PT a well earn break from driving big kms each day. He has done really well. From now on we will be slowing down having two nights every stop except for three more one night stops and two three night stops. Doing a lot less kms as well time to relax a little more but we will still be busy each day.
We have travel 2131kms so far.
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