Travel day.
Nullarbor (Head of Bight) to Ceduna 203km. Ceduna to Streaky Bay 110km.
The wind picked up last night and we woke to a breezy morning but the sunshine was just gorgeous. Packed up and on the road by 8.15am. After studying the map for a long time we decided to head down to Streaky Bay. Between Penong and Ceduna we drove through a sandstorm. We stopped at the quarantine checkpoint 1km out of Ceduna. Being much wiser now days, we had no fruit or vegetables to declare. We ate them!!! At Ceduna we had lunch at the local bakery. About a month ago Ceduna had a mouse plague. Yuck. I was thinking of this while I was having lunch. I hoped they were all gone.
Arrived at Streaky Bay at 2pm. Setting up camp the girls came across a mouse behind our tent. A staff member who heard the girls yells of, "there's a mouse behind our tent!" said, "About a month ago you would have had 30 of them around your feet. We've baited them so the one's you see running around are a bit slow because their dying". I had a sick feeling in my stomach. My worst fears were coming true. It sounded like Streaky Bay had been, and still was, affected by the mouse plague. I hope this is the last we see of any mice. We went into town and had a good look around. Gorgeous town with beautiful old buildings. Had dinner at the pub. While eating dinner I was looking up and saw a mouse scatter across the light panel in the ceiling above us. I felt sick.
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