Western Australia is big - a third of Australia, and many times the size of the UK. There's hardly anyone living there either, and nearly all of them are in Perth. So as we drove north, we were quickly in farming country with huge fields, then that disappeared and there's just the road, red soil and bushes stretching off forever into the flat distance. Given all that, it's surprising to see quite a few caravans and the huge road trains (think articulated lorry plus an extra couple of trailers) plowing up the road, it's a good job the roads are long and straight so that we can actually overtake.
500km later we reached Kalbarri, the first interesting place since Perth and the only place for the last 200km that was more than a petrol station. The huge waves of the Indian Ocean crashed onto the rocks whilst they dwarfed the surfers stupid/brave enough to be towed out by jetski to tackle them. Feeling bored of the car, we took a walk to look at the coastal cliffs, where the flat land abruptly stops and falls into the sea. The clouds stretched off into the interior of Australia until they met the horizon, just another sign of how big this place is.
