Zero dweller

I contacted Johanna and Saskia via a Facebook group. They had the same route as me and on 4.3. we met in Ceduna to drive together through the Nullarbor. It fit right away and so I was happy to have some company again. They had also prepared for a road trip unlike me, as I had never planned one.

I was able to learn a lot, get tips and use them to go to places that I probably wouldn't have gone to on my own before.

We pitched our tents right on the beach in a beautiful dune landscape on or off the road surrounded by rusted cars. Sometimes with, sometimes without the toilet.
We took the endless route through the Nullabor and showered in a roadhouse.

What I had read about the Nullarbor was only partly true. You are by no means alone on the road, and you don't have to take an endless amount of water or fuel with you. At regular intervals, every 300km, there are gas stations where you can get everything you need if you run out.
Nevertheless, the 1200km should not be underestimated. The straight road with monotonous landscape makes you tired quickly. But everything went well.

We said goodbye to each other in Exmouth because Saskia's parents are coming to visit and they want to get to Perth much quicker than I do.

So as of today, March 10, 24, I'm alone again and had a nice beach afternoon at the four mile campground in the Fitzgerald River National Park. I would like to add another day, but unfortunately the place is fully booked again from tomorrow. So we continue to Bremer Bay.

Since the Nullarbor has been mentioned so often, here is an excerpt from it
Wikipedia entry:

Nullarbor Plain, also known as the Nullarbor Desert (from Latin nulla arbor, no tree), is a flat, extensive karst desert in southern Australia directly on the Great Australian Bight. At around 200,000 square kilometers, it is the largest piece of limestone in the world. It measures over 1,200 km in an east-west direction. Part of the car route is the longest completely straight paved road in Australia at 146.6 km.
The group AC/DC, traveling in the tour bus, wrote the song Highway to Hell here.[1]