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Good morning everybody. I hope that you are well. My name is Christian and welcome to my channel Bat Vacuum Bananas. I am coming at you from Espirants Esplanard right now. But we are leaving because today we are about to drive or start the drive across the Nullore, the mighty Nullore. And our plan is to spend the next three nights camping along the way until we reach Adelaide. Thank you. Oh, just picked up a coffee from our new favorite little spot in Espirinance called Coffee Cat as fuel for our journey cuz this is going to be one of the biggest road trips. Well, I mean, it already is one of the biggest road trips that me and my boyfriend Ben have been on. Uh, it's going to be the biggest stretch of driving that we're doing across the
whole trip. If you've seen the previous episodes, you may realize just how much stuff we have with us because we are completely relocating our lives from Perth to Sydney. So, we just have so much stuff in our car and it takes a really long time for us to pack up and whatnot. So, we're actually setting off at like 1000 a.m. this morning, but that's fine. We don't know where we're sleeping tonight. We're just going to get as far as we can and we're going to take you along for the journey. So, let's go. Very important fuel stop here in Espirants. We're going to fill the car up to the top and for the first time actually we are filling up our jerry can with petrol as well just in case we run
out and need extra along the way. Ben puts unled 95 in his car and the cents per liter is 203.2 too. Hello. How you going? Hi. Good, thanks. So, we're in Norman here and we are going to be going east along the Air Highway. It's just is it the world's longest stretch of just like straight. So, we've arrived in Norseman and we are at the visitor center because this is where you pick up the starter pack to do the nullore links which if you don't know is the world's longest golf course. We have a golf club. We've got some te's. We've got some golf balls because we want to participate despite
the fact that neither Ben or I are golfers. Sad news, guys. She didn't have any of the scorecards. Um, you pay $78 for them and that's like the official scorecard and then you get your official certificate at the end. Um, yeah, she just didn't have any. She said, "Are you going to Calgi?" And we were like, "No, we're heading straight east." But she did print off a scorecard for us and so we can still play the game. We can still get it stamped and everything. It's just not official. So we won't get the official certificate in the end, which is a little bit disappointing, but that's okay. Stupid me forgot to download any shows back in Espirants. So, we're going to make the most of the
fact that there is actually 4G here in Norse because I think this is like the last bit of 4G that we're going to get. So, I'm going to hotspot from my phone to my iPad to download some things. And I've just switched on my Surf SharkVPN. And thank you Surf Shark for being the kind sponsors of today's video because something I'm watching back home at the moment is Strictly Come Dancing, which is on BBC i Player. But you may or may not know when you are in a foreign country, you can't stream or download these shows when you're in Australia or when it thinks you're in Australia or a foreign country. your device has to be back in the UK. So thankfully I can just go on my Surf Shark, switch my location
back to the UK, and I can download and stream all of the shows that I want to from back home. That also goes for if you wanted to download or stream shows on Netflix from a certain country. And what Surf Shark also does is it turns your public Wi-Fi connection into a private one. So this is particularly important if I'm ever on the road and I connect to a free public Wi-Fi network, let's say in an airport, in a cafe, in a hotel. When I do that without a VPN, my device is at risk of being hacked. However, when I switch on my Surf Shark, it acts as an immediate shield on my connection so that none of the evil hackers can get in. And Surf Shark is one of the only VPNs which gives you
access on an unlimited number of your devices with just the one account. So, I can do all of this on my phone, my iPad, my laptop, and I have a great discount code for you where you guys can get an extra four months of Surf Shark. You just need to use my code backpacking. You can also head to surfshark.com/backpacking. And the link for that will also be in the description. This is what I want to watch. This is the thing that everybody's watched and Ben has already watched it, but I haven't yet. So, we're watching it tonight.
You're watching it again. We came in here cuz we heard they had pies, but it doesn't look like they have any pies. Hungry? Yes, I am. Wait. Beef, cheese, and bacon pie. They've got one less bend. So, we have stopped off at our first house in Baladonia, a few hours down the road. And I've got to say, I'm actually really impressed so far. These are the toilets. This sign is slightly concerning, but anyway, you go in. [snorts] The toilets are clean. There's toilet roll. You may not be able to see, but there's toilet roll.
There's I mean, maybe because I'm just so used to driving through Pakistan and you kind of stop at these toilet stops and there is nothing and it's super dirty, but this I'm impressed. Way better than I was expecting. And these are just free to use. We are filling up with petrol here. We've only used like a quarter of the tank so far, but we've kind of said that we are going to fill up almost everywhere that we stop just because we can and just in case stay on the safe side. We never really want to get load to empty just in case we get somewhere where like it's just way further than we think to the next petrol station or you just never know what's going to happen.
How much is it here? Almost $250. two almost $2.50 for filling up with 98 here. Still cheaper than the UK, but the most expensive place we've been so far. I wonder if they're just going to get more and more expensive the further through the nullore that we go. And inside of here, the Baladonia Motel, you've got a cafe. You've got a store. You've even got a museum. Jesus, I was wondering this actually. The highway was sealed in the 1960s. Oh, wow. There is a nullable links golf hole here, but we are not going to do it because we don't actually have that much time today. So, we are going to get straight on the road. This is quite useful. You can see where the stops are
along the way. So, we are here at Baladonia. We did want to go all the way to Cockal Biny tonight, but we don't think we're going to make it there with the sunlight. So, we're probably just going to go to one of these rest stops here. This one at 304 km. Okay, it's 5:30 p.m. We've not made it all the way to Coco Biddy. Um, we've decided that we're going to stop a little bit earlier just so we can set up our tent in the daylight. And so, we stopped at what I believe is called the Baxter's rest area. And I don't think I've ever been anywhere like this before. So, as you may be able to see, there is lots of people camped up here.
Most people have very flashy trailers and lovely 4x4s. And then there is us in our stunning Mazda 6 where we will be setting up our swag. The sun is going down. As far as facilities here, I believe there is just toilets, there is bins, and there is picnic tables. So, obviously, it's not much, but it's completely free. You don't pay any kind of fee to stay here. And we thought for one night we're totally fine staying somewhere like this. We don't need to shower for just one night. We did buy some baby wipes from Wworth's just before we left Espirinance. So that will be our wet wipe shower for the evening.
I'll be completely honest. I didn't even know these rest areas where you could literally just camp for free existed. What do I know? I did no research. Like I said, we had a week to plan for this road trip. I don't actually need the toilet right now, but let's check out the toilet situation here. Okay, it doesn't smell too bad. There is toilet paper here. Can confirm it's one of those just like holes. And oh, okay. The water doesn't work, but that's okay. Over here, they have a dumpy. So, all the waste you've collected, if you're in a camper van, you can dump it here. 24-hour stopping is allowed in this area, but full camping facilities are not provided. And just as the sun has set, we are all set up for the night thankfully. Had to
do the bedding entirely inside the fly net because the flies are everywhere, but it looks pretty cozy in there. And we're now we're going to make some dinner. This is kind of crazy. Like I've never camped anywhere quite like this before. Here we go. Dinner for the night. We have got rice and chili conani. The chili conci we actually made back at the RA and in Espirin, but we had some leftovers. So, we've got that, heated it up, and some salad, like a Greek style salad with a Greek style dressing. Now, the sun's gone over the horizon. There's not so many flies, even with our lantern on, which feels suspicious, but I'm very glad about it. The thing that takes a lot of time every day is just
repacking our kitchen box because everything fits in quite meticulously. So when you use one thing from the box, you have to kind of take everything out. And then when you want to repack, you take everything out just to put it all back in. So this is just the daily ritual that we're doing at this point. There's bugs. This will get me out of here. [snorts] Good morning everyone. Oh my god, there's so many flies. Oh, we woke up at 6:00. It's now4 to 7 and we're hoping to get away ASAP because these flies are just really bad. We picked up a bunch of these long life milks.
I lost the lid of my coffee cup yesterday and I'll be honest, I'm completely devastated. I don't know how I lost it. I like retraced all of my steps in aspirants. Oh well. So, I will be searching for a new one cuz this is my favorite coffee cup that I've ever had. I actually got it at a little gift shop in Xmouth a few months ago. The brand is Made by Fresco. So, when I get to Sydney or Melbourne or Adelaide, that's what I'll be searching for. Par four. This is so cool. All right, we are at Kaigona and this is going to be our first golfing experience on the Nullivore links just because we haven't done every single one. Mostly because we
haven't allowed the time to do that. But we're going to do this one. I just cleaned my teeth here because it's like 40 minutes down from where we were and there's an actual roadhouse here. You don't know. You need to bring your own teas. Do you know where you're aiming for? Just that way in that direction. I forgot. How do you Right. Do you know what? I'm just pleased I hit it. What's the damage here? That's 250 L. 256 L. for premium 98 unleted in Madura. We were going to make some sandwiches here, but it's so windy. So, we're literally just going to fill up and head on to the next stop. So, I was just reading up on this
pamphlet that I picked up in Norseman about quarantine in South Australia. And I was reading and turns out, I don't know why I didn't think of this, there's a bunch of things like cucumber and tomatoes that we can't take into South Australia from Western Australia. So, we've just stopped in it looks like you want to say Mundraa. Um, but I'm sure in Australia they just call it Mandraella. It is about 70 km out from UCLA and the start of South Australia. And I'm just going to cut up this cucumber that we have so that we can snack on it in the car. Have it with some hummus. I'm also going to cut up some cherry tomatoes and
cheese and have that as a snack so that hopefully we don't get told off by quarantine when we arrive in South Australia. That wouldn't be a very good so windy here at all of the service stations. Yeah, getting fined by customs would not be a good start to our journey in South Australia. here. I don't think I'm making some ham cheese sandwiches for our lunch. Reading on the hummus. Ham. I like the cheese slices in Australia. They're like proper cheese as opposed to like the plastic cheese. Okay, we are at the border village. So, we've just come past Ucla. We didn't feel the need to stop in Ucla, though. I
think that's one of the bigger road houses. Just need to finish all these tomatoes. I have no idea if they're going to even check. Welcome to South Australia. Woohoo. No, didn't get stopped. Whoa. The kangaroo. Oh, you want a picture with the big kangaroo? This one's for the visa. the partner visa. Okay, I think we are officially on it now. I think this whole time up to now that's not officially the nullore planes, but this is Oh yeah, nullore baby.
Look at this guy. We've just stopped off at a viewpoint for the Bunda Cliffs. Hilarious that they are called the Bunda Cliffs. Nice to stretch the legs to be honest. We've been on the road for quite a long time. We don't know where we're going to sleep tonight yet. We'd love to make it to Seduna, but we because the time change has been happening and obviously we're traveling east. It means we're losing sunlight unfortunately. So, we don't know if we'll make it to Seduna before the sun goes down. So, I guess we'll just see where we end up. We are at the famous Nullore Roadhouse. We're not going to stay here, but we are hopefully going to get a coffee and hopefully use the Wi-Fi. I got to say it's a lot more um
oldfashioned than I was expecting. What's the damage? $2.94. That's the most expensive we've been to. Right. That is almost UK prices We are arriving in Seduna and there is the Seduna quarantine station here and it says all vehicles must stop. Hello. West. Yes, we have. Do you have any fruit, vegetables or plant material on board? No. Uh plant material. Was it plant material?
Yeah. So, I got two pot plants, but if we've I double checked and we only use compost mix. There's no dirt from WA. Yeah. Are you taking them into state or you bring? Oh, Sydney. Going to Sydney. Yeah. Do you mind if I have a quick look in the back? Oh, yeah, of course, mate. Oh my god, the flies. I think they're at least Are they mozzies? I think No, I think they're just moths.
Okay, so he was all right with our plants and well, we'd already got rid of all of our fruit and veg. I sped ate the uh cucumber earlier cuz I thought that was going to happen much earlier on. Okay, we are in Seduna Shell and is that 208? So almost a dollar less per liter here. This is for V Power Shell V Powered 98. We found a free rest stop just 10 km or so past Seduna, which is where we set up camp and slept for the night. There were no facilities at all, which didn't concern us, but the flies were completely unbearable. Even after it got completely dark, it felt just impossible to be outside of the car or the tent. So, the only footage I got is
this shot of the sunrise from the inside of the tent, which was lovely, but as soon as the sun was up, we just gritted our teeth and packed up the car as fast as we could before getting back on the road. And I don't know whether it was the flies, the lack of Wi-Fi and service, or just the sheer amount of endless roads we were driving down, but I had a complete mental breakdown in the car. Poor Ben was just holding my hand from the driver's seat as I tried to make sense of my emotions. But I think if any road trip is going to make you lose your mind, it's going to be this one. Our original plan was to head into the Air Peninsula and check out Port Lincoln. But with my mental state taking
a bit of a turn, we decided to make a beline just straight for Adelaide and get back to proper city civilization as fast as we could. So, we completed the whole journey of the Nullore, almost 2,200 km from Espirans to Adelaide in 3 days and two nights. So, let's recap. We only completed one Nullore links golfing hole, as we learned that you'd really have to stop quite a lot if you wanted to complete all of them. You'd also have to have started or finished in Calgi in order to complete them all and get the certificate, which we had not. A fly net is an absolute necessity on the nullore without a doubt. And make sure you have read up on quarantine lords going in either direction because you definitely
don't want to be caught out with a fine. I'll put a picture of our leaflet on screen for some more information. Big shout out to Ben for doing all of this driving. I would like to say that I am insured on the car and offered to jump in and do some stints, but once we got going, he decided he just wanted to do it all and get on with it. We were kept energized by coffee when it was available, but also had a good stash of V energy drinks in the car, which was an absolute necessity for keeping focus driving on these straight roads for so long. So, we have officially left Western Australia, unlocked a new state, and our great Australian road trip will continue in the next episode in South
Australia's capital, Adelaide. And I will see you then. Bye-bye.
