It was a long drive from Coober Pedy to Wilpena and so it was quite late as we entered the park. As you might know, twilight is the animals time to appear on roads and they are quite hard to spot. That's when we drive very cautiously, just in case. Unfortunately one of those animals, a wallaroo (something between a kangaroo and wallaby) bounced onto the road but luckily Felix was able to stop in time. That little creature gave us a start... However, walloroos wern't the only animals we saw on that day, no, we saw for the first time emus in the wild.

Early the next morning we started to hike St Marys Peak but not before we registered the hikers book (we 've been told to do so many times). As we did so an officer from a local search party asked if we could do her a favour. Of course we could. She told us that there is a man out there missing and if we came across him we should let her know. We were really surprised and wondered if this man probably hadn't signed out of the book. But we were even more surprised to see the missing man on the track, stumbling along the path, gasping for breath. He set out in the late afternoon without water or any food! It is not a very hard hike but it was hot the day before and the hike is said to last between 4-6 hours. How stupid of him. At least 10 people were looking for him...

After a good work out we reached the saddle and had a spectacular view over a part of the Flinders Range. We didn't climb the peak because the local aborigines prefer it when white people don't climb this sacred site. We decided on the spot to go the long way around and not the same way as we went up. This lead us through the Wilpena Pound which is a huge valley.

On the next day we started heading west. After some km driving it started to rain. Unbelivable! This region is known as one of the driest (Much of the countrys wheat is produced there) and we had rain instead of dust and heat. Our fist overnight stop was in Ceduna after 500km. The next day, we had to drive about 700km throught the so called Nullarbor Plain, an almost treeless, endless plain. The sky was still cloudy, some drops of rain and the temperature on a normal scale which was very welcome.

We probably have seen the Nullarbor Plain and the steep cliffs of a gigantic carst coast in a weather as not many other tourist have seen it. Even a rainbow was there on a plain with lots of bushes...

Only on the third day and some 700km further west the sun came out again. Our first sightseeing in Western Australia is near Esperance, a small town with lots of strange people and it'll lead us this afternoon to the well known  Cape Le Grande National Park.