Arriving into Eucla - which is merely the name of a place where there is a caravan park, service station, and a restaurant where people stop over on their journey across this highway, marked the end of our first day. Eucla is the site of an old telegraph station which is now nearly covered in sand dunes. There were other, interesting or odd, findings along the Nullarbor highway - debris from NASA's spacecrafts, history of the camels and their Afgan riders who carried supplies along this route, the rabbit-proof fence, We met a man from Western Australia travelling around Australia in a horse and cart. He is raising money for cancer. Having been on the road for 4 months, at 25km a day, he figures it will take him another 3 years. We met cyclists who were biking across the Nullarbor, hoping to do 100km a day.
On our second day we crossed into South Australia, where the highway runs alongside the Great Australian Bight, and saw the massive cliffs that look like the Nullarbor Plain just dropped off into the Southern Ocean. The Southern Right Whale resides in these waters in the winter. Again, we watched for animals, but saw none. Not even the dingos that visit the Roadhouses hoping for some free handouts. Near the end of our second day, we arrived in Ceduna, the official end of the Nullarbor drive. I gave the girls each a postcard I had bought previously, stating they had now crossed the Nullarbor Plain. "That was it? We're here already?" was their reply. Apparently not too much different from driving from Victoria to my parents cabin in Saskatchewan, they thoughts.