This week it’s a tale of time travel, outer space and underground secrets.
Join Heather Ewart as she resumes her Nullarbor Plain odyssey, this time from the South Australian border travelling west across Western Australia.
Crossing the Nullarbor has always been seen as a challenge, and countless people still cross it in unusual ways. On her trip, Heather meets a lone horse rider and even one brave soul attempting it on foot!
On the surface there’s rich history. The haunting remains of the original Eucla town, offer rare glimpses of the past, now largely swallowed by the marching dunes. Then there’s the Eyre Bird Observatory, Australia’s first, housed in an old Telegraph station from the 1890s where Heather meets the observatory caretakers and experiences life truly off grid.
Below the surface of the Nullarbor Plain is a whole other world. Stunning crystal covered labyrinths await the adventurous in the world-renowned Nullarbor cave systems. Heather discovers first hand that they take a bit of effort, expertise and courage to enter!
This is a journey of wonder, and further along the road Heather even hears stories of extra-terrestrial objects! “Then came the roar. It became louder and louder and louder – it was like a huge thunderbolt and it just wouldn’t go away, it went on and on and on”, explains grazier Pauline Grewar, remembering the extraordinary night when NASA’s first space station plummeted to earth and catapulted the region onto the world stage.
And when the Stuart Highway ends at Norseman, Heather takes a left towards the coast, ending up at the astonishingly beautiful Lucky Bay, where kangaroos gather daily on the purest white sandy beaches.
Production details – Executive Producer, Brigid Donovan. Story Producer, Damian Estall.
