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It’s Wednesday 4th October at One o’Clock in the afternoon. We’ve finished for the day already after a 70 something KM day from Poochera to Wudinna.

Dave’s pushing himself. I’m not sure whether he’s pushing himself too hard but his spirits seem to be high still so we’ll carry on taking each day as it comes.

A great deal has happened since I last blogged and the reason for the lack of blogs as you will probably already know is because we’ve been on the Nullarbor.

As of last Friday we finished the Nullarbor, a week sooner than we’d expected too!
The weather at the moment is exceptionally hot. Yesterday it was 35 degrees celcius and today was heading that way until the clouds and wind came over us.
I can’t even begin to go through all that’s happened, partially because my arms wouldn’t be able to handle typing it all out!

I’m going through today’s photo’s and we’ve just been shown the Road to South Australia video for the web. I cried. It just summed it up, well and truly. Most of the team were pretty choked and I know that Dave was almost overwhelmed by it.
I haven’t seen the photographs that Dave’s been putting on the website yet so it’ll be interesting to see the website….it’ll be completely different from the last time we all saw it. When you look at it every day you don’t notice the little things that change!

All the boys shaved their beards/handlebar moustaches off at Ceduna and looked like a bunch of 15 year olds!

We met so many different people in Ceduna. After putting Dave in a parade and giving nearly 97% of people there leaflets we went fundraising around the Oyster Festival and managed to raise a fair bit of $’s.

As always, the kindness carries on in Southern Australia and tonight we’re staying at the Mobil Motel which has kindly been given to us for free by the owners who’ve ALSO offered us a free dinner each. Last night we stayed in actual Caravans at Poochera Caravan Park/Motel, and previous nights have been spent in the bush, parking spots, caravan parks or motels too.

I’m not feeling too great in terms of health. Last night was super hot and I woke up this morning with a sore throat, funny nose and a bit of a stuff head….typical, in the heat, I get a cold! Again nurse McKinlay had a poke of my neck and told me I had a ‘fat face’ from my glands being up. It made me giggle.

At a road house at some point on the Nullarbor or maybe even before it, Dimitri and I wrote some lyrics for a BoardFree song. A few weeks ago Bev used the words and came up with the melody for it and it’s absolutely breathtaking and so fitting!

We’ve got a new bike, which I tried out yesterday. I couldn’t go very far as it’s too small for me so fingers crossed we get a new wheel for the old racer. Everyone is having a great time exercising on the bike, especially Bev as she’s been pining for exercise since Perth!


In Ceduna at the Festival, there was a tug of war competition with a prize of $200.
Of course, us being the Pom’s that we are, we entered it, not realising our opposing teams could possibly be from the wrestling/sumo federations!
Girls first. Off we went, up to the rope to toss a coin. We clocked sight of the girls we were going to be tugging against. All of our faces dropped. Now, I’m not a particularly petite girl, but when I saw these girls I felt like Kylie Minogue!!!! These women were 6ft by 6ft! Needless to say we lost the first round. Then it was the next round. Time for us to pull against the other female team. And whaddya know, it was the security officers for the festival. I thought we nearly had them, everyone was cheering for us but eventually we lost. THEN, we saw the boys opposition. Now imagine the size of Dave’s calf. The first team looked like they’d eaten ten of Dave’s calf sized steaks EACH!….The boys lost and now Dan and Dave have got blisters on their hands where the rope. Worth a try eh and good for the camera!

Also at Ceduna we went swimming in the sea for the second time since we’ve been in Australia. It smelt of dogs so we didn’t spend too long!
On Sunday, Becki, Bev and I got dropped off at the drag racing with a view to fundraising and leafleting. We asked if we could and we got told there’d be a conflict of charities as the company that organised the racing has their own charities, so off we went and tried to give out leaflets but the crowd were only interested in one thing, the racing! We ended up getting chatting to a few of the blokes who bought us a few drinks and they donated too which is brilliant!

Right....in a bit of a rush....so i'll wrap it up by saying, keep looking at the vids and pics....i'll be back soon!

Holl