Nullarbor crossing Part II: Caiguna to Ceduna (END)

Caiguna - Cocklebiddy - Madura - Mundrabilla - Eucla - Border-Village - Nullarbor Roadhouse - Nundroo - Penong - Ceduna (total distance Norseman to Ceduna: 1200 km, Nullarbor: lat.: nulla arbor => no tree)

After three weeks of medical treatment and recovering in Norseman, on Oct. 16th the trucker took me and my stuff back to Caiguna. what a great help and hospitality !
I will miss him, his wife and their funny dog very much ! hope to see them again!
After such a long time of doing nothing, my endurance was very bad. first day then was only a 65 km ride to Cocklebiddy Roadhouse.
I wanna be honest, but cycling through the Nullarbor desert/on the Eyre Highway is a very boring event. Every 100 or 200 k a roadhouse, the whole highway is sealed. The only challenge are the bloody headwinds. I always checked the weather forecasts, but most of the time they were wrong. Those headwinds and strong gusts make the day very bad, and if a roadtrain is coming from the opposite direction, his headwind is like a hammer.70 % of my whole Nullarbor crossing was with strong gusts and headwinds. at Border Village I left Western Australia, entered South Australia and cycling becomes more difficult, because there is only a very small sealed shoulder. If a roadtrain or a caravan approaches, I have to leave the comfortable road and cycle into the gravelled shoulder; this is not funny if you are too fast. yes, it was a tough trip.
In 2012 I already cycled through the desert of Kazachstan, from Aktau to the border of Uzbekistan, where there was no sealed track, only smooth rock, sand-and dustholes, sometimes gravel, and temperatures up to 48 degrees Celsius. this was much tougher, but more exciting.
I do not complain, it is only a statement. I had always big fun with the people who I met on the road or in the roadhouses. After a hard day of cycling this was a very relaxing and important part for me.