Tour Guide Tales – 60,000km across the Nullarbor and counting!

We get the inside scoop from Nullarbor Tour Guide Jodie…

I get so many questions on my trips, a few of my favourites include:

• Do we saddle emu’s and ride them like we do with the kangaroos?
• If it’s raining will the sea lions still come into the water and play?
• Why is the road so straight?
• Do the camels actually live out here in the middle of nowhere?
• Why is the sky so blue?
• How long is the 90 mile straight?
• Why are there so many bugs out here in the bush?

I could go on all day! The two questions I get asked the most though are one, “Do you ever get bored doing the same trip across the Nullarbor?”

Every month for the last 8 months I have driven 8500kms with two groups of Nullarbor Traveller passengers. I can stand with my hand on my heart and say that no moment in my 60,000kms this season has been the same as the last. These epic adventure tours across the Nullarbor are so unique and there is an unbelievable amount to be seen between Adelaide and Perth. It is two thirds of Australia after all!

Plus if you have seen any of the videos we put up on the Nullarbor Facebook page, you would understand there is no time for getting bored with such shenanigans to be created!

The second most common question is about one of my many favourite places on the Nullarbor trips. People ask, “The Great Australian Bight – what does it mean”?
Great – large, magnificent, epic (yes its certainly all of those!)
Australian – part of this great big amazing country we call home, Terra Australis.
Bight – in nautical terms, a large open bay. Large as in 1160kms running from Cape Carnot in South Australia t- Cape Pasley in Western Australia.

The Great Australian Bight is the longest continuous cliff coast line in the Southern Hemisphere. Epic indeed and a place that takes my breath away every single time I stop there and proudly showcase it to my passengers. Seeing their responses, the emotion and their reconnection to nature is absolutely one of the best parts of the job and makes those 60,000km so enjoyable!

My passengers and the questions and enthusiasm they share are one of the most rewarding parts of my job. I meet so many amazing individuals and there is always at least one question on tour that is a new one!

To find out more or book on to one of Nullarbor Traveller’s tours visit nullarbortraveller.com.au