We slept in! We were not sure how that was even possible but when we got up we were just about the last campers left at the campground. This entirely perplexed us because each of us slept through the noise of the other campers moving around, hitching up and pulling out. Either they were incredibly quiet or we were incredibly tired from the big drive yesterday.
We managed to hit the road within 45 minutes and this still gave us a pretty decent start. 
Caleb found a picture that he had drawn of us last year when we started our journey when he was doing his schoolwork. He wanted it where we could see it while we were driving so that we “didn’t miss Az too much”. Cute. 
We got to Eucla for morning tea and made some phone calls while we had Telstra service from the lookout. We sang our best rendition of Happy Birthday to Kylie (mother of our gorgeous Grandson Ryder) but unfortunately it was wasted on her voicemail. I’m sure she will enjoy it when she gets it!?!
Ray did a little climbing to loosen up his driving legs but Caleb got stuck trying to follow him! It’s the small things that are so amusing on a trip across the Nulla-“bore” as it is known. I laughed until my stomach muscles hurt so I was well and truly exercised in that region.
We sang ABBA, Lionel Ritchie and I had another go at Michael Bolton’s How Can We Be Lovers in memory of the great Judy and Emma’s crossing of the Nullabor in January. Ray didn’t seem impressed and wouldn’t join in, even though I showed him the hand movements to go with the words. Perhaps he needs more practise. 
In the distance we could make out something unfamiliar on the horizon. As we travelled closer, we pulled up next to a young fellow in his 20’s who was cycling along the verge of the road. We had a little chat while we were crawling along (at his pace ) and he said he had left Perth and was cycling across the Nullabor and then following the coast up to Queensland and then back to Perth. He had a tent, a couple of saddle bags and some cordial bottles. I’d love to have his legs when he’s finished! There are definitely some amazing people out here, doing some amazing things. 
We crossed into South Australia about noon and “lost” another 2 hours with the time change. Instantly, we were hungry as it was now nearing late afternoon! We managed to hold out a little longer though! 
Then something absolutely unbelievable happened. It started raining! We looked at each other and knew we were nearing Victoria if it was raining! Ray wasn’t too worried though, if it was raining it was less likely to be windy and today we had escaped the head winds that make such a difference to fuel consumption. It’s the talk of the travelling community, how to escape the head winds, and we heard of people delaying their departure across the Nullabor because it was too windy. Chris and Vicki mentioned that their kilometres reduced from about 550km out if their tank of diesel, to around 350km. That’s a huge reduction and extra cost. Fingers crossed, we have been very lucky. 
Caleb kept himself busy in the back of the car seeing how wide he could open his mouth, and then discovered if he tickled himself, it actually did tickle! This kept him amused for a while. Yep, that home schooling education seems to be expanding his mind alright!
We arrived at the Head Of Bight which we were looking forward to seeing – the edge of Australia up close! We were dismayed to see that the road was gated off and as it was past 4pm we couldn’t enter. It was also $5 per person to continue down the road. The atlas revealed that the middle section of the Nullabor is in fact an Aboriginal Reserve, so we weren’t surprised that we needed to put our hands in our pockets yet again in order to see and gain access to this part of the region… We will have to put this sight on our list for our next Nullabor crossing and remember its early daily finish.
We stopped at another free camp (pretty much just dirt and ants beside the road ) and while it continued to rain we lounged around til bedtime enjoying the splotches that landed on our bare skin.