ONE MILLION KANGAROO'S & SKYLAB NULLARBOR TOWNS?
DAY 3
What's it feel like to be nowhere?
Then, drive Cocklebiddy to Balladonia 220km.
-A no man's land.
Outback Driving
Although the one and only East\West road between the southern Australian states and Western Australia is fully sealed it's very remote and isolated country. The Eyre Highway skirts the fringe of the Nullarbor Plain and the highway has the longest stretch of straight road in Australia. Perhaps is one of the longest in the world. Needless to say there is no road side fencing. No roadside train tracks, no power lines, few trees and no signs of civilisation for hours of driving, just the never ending road.
NASA FIRST SPACE STATION 'SKYLAB' 1974
Cocklebiddy Western Australia
The area is basically a roadhouse. The name of the roadhouse is the Wedgetail Inn and has a caravan park, and hotel motel facilities.
Balladonia Beyond the Nullarbor
Is a small roadhouse settlement across the border on the Eyre Highway in Western Australia.
The Balladonia roadhouse, has a display of Skylab debris and newspaper clippings, as well as hotel and motel rooms.
In July 1979, the area gained global attention with the re-entry of Skylab. An orbiting NASA space station. A long trail of small debris were scattered across the nearby countryside.
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SKYLAB RE-ENTRY ON BALLADONIA
BALLADONIA WESTERN AUSTRALIA
TOURIST BOARD
INTERESTING LONG & STRAIGHT DRIVE
SEDAN DRIVING THE OUTBACK HIGHWAYS
DISPLAY SIGN 1,234,567 KANGAROO'S
ONLY OUTNUMBERED BY THE FLIES
