Also, be careful when you get into Ceduna, as I nearly got robbed there. It’s your last stop before anything like a town, so make sure you stock up on supplies and fuel here.  To give more of the back story, my car battery died and wouldn’t charge, so much so that the central locking was also gone. We jumped the car to start it and my then-girlfriend and I went to a nearby campsite for the night to wait for the garages to open. I had a bag on the back seat of my car with my laptop, camera, passport and all my travel documents inside it. We were in a tent right next to the car and we were far from the town (around a 40-minute walk) and next to a beach. My gut told me to put the bag in the tent with us, but Australia is incredibly safe (you can leave your bag on a fairly busy beach, go swimming and it will still be there when you come back, is what I had found elsewhere). My girlfriend told me it would be fine and to get some sleep. Luckily, though she was awake in the night and heard someone open our car door, she woke me, and I ran out of the tent to confront them and heard them running off towards the beach in the dark. It was an incredibly lucky escape – they had opened the front passenger door and been startled before they had time to open the back door and ran off, a few more seconds and it would have been a disaster! 

The Nullarbor is incredible. There are no trees, however, plenty of shrubs, but it’s still desert-like, Australian desert-like, with gravelly-sands, don’t go expecting it to be like the Sahara with sand dunes everywhere. I wild camped here in a cheap pop-up tent and it was incredible. The stargazing at night was legendary and it’s one of, if not the best, night sky I have ever seen. There is obviously no light pollution out here, so I lay with my head outside the opening of my tent and looked up to the heavens, incredible and highly recommend it for something different! If you stay on the main coastal road, it’s tarmac all the way and there is some traffic, but you still take extra fuel and water. Also, be conscious that if you turn off this main road, what little traffic there is becomes even less so help may not be forthcoming. Plan ahead and play it safe. Try and use a car with cruise control because you’ll be taking on Australia’s longest section of straight road, which is 90 miles (147 km) long. If you are budget travelling, as I did with a car and a tent, then you can freshen up with wet wipes or, even better, do what I did and stop at the truck stops along the way. Showers here are often either cheap or free and mean you can really budget travel across the country! Like with my planning ahead for fuel stops, I also plan potential camping locations, restaurants, towns and shower/truck stops in towns before I lose signal.