Pictures To Words # 17 # Free Expression ~ Campfire Stories.

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Nullarbor Nymph's and All.

The weather was fine as we found our campsite for the night.

A small clearing with protection from the elements in the form of blue-bush scrub bushes on one side and a small lonely tree on the other side.

Our drive along the Nullarbor Plain was going well, although we would always stop by 4pm to find 'Our Spot' just off the highway for the night, because driving in the dark presented too many hazards.

Wild residents such as, Huge Wedge-tailed Eagles feasting on road kill, Camels, Wombats and Kangaroos roamed freely across the highway in the dark of night.

This is the stretch of high way spanning two thousand seven hundred and ninety three kilometres of desert driving through nature on a dry and semi deserted plain, linking on the West coast Perth, Western Australia with Adelaide South Australia to the East.

We made our small camp fire from odds and ends we had carried with us in the back of the ute and settled in for a good out back tucker consisting of billy tea, baked beans served on fire roasted damper bread. A can of rice cream tossed into the fire to heat it and dessert was served with tinned fruit. Yummy!

The food we carried with us and a good store of water too, because both can be very scarce in this rugged country.

The highway runs in places close up by an amazing coastline and if you wish to detour to the small towns and beaches that are accessible then you can be treated to some very interesting activities like, whale watching from the high cliffs of the Great Australian Bite.

Dinner over and our camper trailer set up for sleeping we decide to sit by the fire and look skyward to the heavens above. There is never a more beautiful sight in the Australian bush as the sight of a sky full of twinkling stars, stretching as far as the eyes can see. All this on a pitch black canvas, sky.

It was whilst we sat and chatted that the mention of the Nullarbor Nymph became a topic of conversation.

The story goes that back in the seventies there were sightings of this near nude nymph wandering around the Nullarbor Plain town of Eucla in Western Australia.

It was reported at the time that Kangaroo hunters saw this white Nymph who supposedly lived with kangaroos.

As far fetched as it was, the story went global and the Nullarbor Nymph legend was born.

The truth of the tale was that the whole episode was cooked up by local business men who used a seventeen year old model as the nymph.

This Nullarbor Nymph was covered in kangaroo skins and photographed as the real deal, to give substance to this hoax.

Long gone is the Nymph although her legend lives on with many a tourist still wanting to see Our lady of the Nullarbor. 'see link here'.

Milli 09.