EUCLA & Onwards

MONDAY, 4th June 2012

Well, this day dawned gorgeous.  A beautiful blood red sky! and clear skies with no wind.  Wow! what a difference.

 

Now no laughing either - this is our ablutions block last night & it was 50 meters away (but it felt like 250 mtrs at the odd moment *lol*)

How funny!  look what I found in the morning!!!
Obviously Greg was more cautious than I felt I needed to be.

Good job he knew it was me entering the van
at 2.00 am in the morning and not thinking it was someone trying to rob him of his canvas bag and clothesline!

I know, I know;  he really was just being my knight in shining 'jammies.

We made the border and crossed over after the fruit/vege inspection.  Our guy was really nice and explained a lot about why they need to do the big checks.  I gave him our honey (Capillano), and he said he did need to take it because it wasn't still sealed.  This is simply because so many people have their store bought (and heat treated) honey, but refill it with local bought honey and/or honeycomb which can have a devestating effect on the pure WA honey.  Totally understandable after he explained it, but before hand we were wondering why honey was on the 'banned list'.

We were welcomed to Eucla Eyre Telegraph Station Ruins by this lovely pair of Galahs.  Very interesting place which was a long way down from the height of the cliffs, which was a little perplexing since it was used for telegraph messages and you would think they would need the shortest possible route.  The only thing we could think of was that it was much easier to dig through the sand than the clay-type rock higher up.



Greg on top of the Eyre Telegraph Ruins in Eucla

View from the top of the ruins back towards Eucla

They keep showing us this sign (& low and behold, an emu jumped out fromt he side of the road and we didn't even see it till it almost collected us!!!!!)

See this big break in the rock.  This is all along the coastline where the elements are claiming the mainland.  So many time we come to look-out areas fenced off for the publics protection and this clearly shows why it is so dangerous to step right out there.  Underneath these are very often hollow cave-like sections with bare inches, maybe 1 - 2 feet, of sandy  soil between the top and the bottom of the crack.