Our return journey through the Nullarbor Wilderness Protection Area.

13k Peg Lookout

Eremophila on the limestone covered lookout area

Nullarbor Plain

Bunda Cliffs start 19km east of Border Village.

Lookout – at morning tea, we celebrated the stunning views with an iced chocolate near the cliff edge – it was a ledge-and dairy time.

The Bunda Cliffs along the Great Australian Bight vary in height from 60 to 120 metres and are composed of fossiliferous limestone.

The view north from the cliff line.

Another passage across the treeless plain.

Nullarbor Roadhouse is 189km east of Border Village….

… so its a long way to shop if you want a Chiko roll. No, I didn’t have one.

Nullarbor Roadhouse from a gravel road to the north. Phone reception is available for a few kilometres either side of the roadhouse.

Old water tank

Head of Bight – the Southern Right Whales have mostly returned to the Antarctic. They prefer the ice-olation down there.

We were told the last two – a mother and calf – would likely depart soon.

They send messages by podcast.

The view east.

Sea lions were frolicking in the waves below the cliffs.

After another hour and a half drive east, we enter prime wombat country.

From the highway we look for mounded dug earth. We walk away from the roadside for 30 metres and find a complex system of holes and tunnels.

Foortpints and fresh droppings tell us the burrow is active. The droppings (scats) are distinctively cube-like. The wombats are mostly nocturnal here only venturing out when the temperature outside is similar to the 20 degrees C burrow temperature. As it was 39 degrees today, we have little hope of seeing them unless we camp out here well into the night.

Penong Windmills when we arrived in the afternoon and ….

…. Penong Windmills at sunset. This impressive collection of around 20 donated and restored windmills were collected from as far away as Riverland on the Murray River and Alice Springs. How do windmills work? “The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind; The answer is blowin’ in the wind.”

Nearby, a Grey butcherbird is on the lookout for an evening meal.

Penong grain storage

Tonight’s supermoon is 22,600 kilometres closer to Earth than usual, making it appear about 5 per cent larger and 13 per cent brighter than the average full moon. Lunarcy!