Erwin and Dorits' Endless Summer

After spending some more time at Scarborough and Trigg beach and got familiar with our new boards we headed south to Bunbury. One of Dorit’s former neigbours form the Gold Coast had a concert with his punk rock band called “Silver Lizard”. The next day we were invited for lunch and got some information of Tim & Jazz over the Margaret River Area, we were heading to that evening.

We drove to Yillingup, a village of 810 people with a beautiful reef on the shore. Most surfers seemd to be 65+. We went to a beach a little bit further called Smith beach also with a little reef. We had a couple of nice waves and could get familiar with surfing a reef, which we hadn’t done before. Just as we were looking at the ocean we saw whales jumping out of the water.

whales jumping out of the water

The next morning 7am somebody was knocking on our van. The Ranger of the National Park made us pay 100$ for illigal camping…:o( From now on we were much more careful when picking our sleeping spot.

forest dirt tracks

Margaret River is actually a very scenic destination with beautiful forests and a lot of wineries. Unfortuantly for us most beaches were only acessable with 4 wheel drive. As our van does not have this luxuary we ended up south pretty quick.

The south coast did not have much to offer for us, so we prepared ourselfs for the big journey across the Nullarbor (latin for “no trees”). We crosses the West / South Australien border after driving for 700 km (including 147 km straight). But there was more to come. Still 900 km to Adelaide. And guess what, we are still driving…..

After hours in the desert you would think, why wouldn’t they go for a swim or surfing? Do you know “Nicolle”? We read that this area of south australia is an important breeding ground for whales, sea lions and great white sharks. The scariest scenes in the film Jaws were shot here. We are happy to keep on driving even though it must be one of this hot days (38 degrees) in the outback. We are looking forward to see Adelaide (and some civilisation) and to find some surfable beaches for the “not so brave”.