Nullabor Fuel Prices

If you stop at Penong when going west and Norseman going east they will give you the gen on up to date prices. (In Norseman use the service station in town near the info station.)

Regarding stopping places for overnight - very few of them are far from the road. Probably the only ones that are, are a couple at the cliff top look outs on the SA side of the border. If you get yourself a copy of Camps Australia Wide they are listed complete with co-ordinates. Feed these into Google Earth or Google Maps and have a look at them.

PeterD

Thread 72182 is fairly recent (Sept)

:)

Graham, if you see a light gold coloured 200 series towing a Bushtracker, sing out on CH40.

I'm presently in NSW but will be leaving Temora on Monday after the airshow and heading thru Hay, Mildura, Port Augusta etc.

cheers

Graham,

Just been over(currently in Port Wakefield heading in to adelaide). We filled up in Noresman at the shell in town. (these are all diesel)

Noresman Shell 129.4
Nundroo SAFF 126.9
Port Augusta Caltex 124.9

Balladonia was 161.9
Madura was 169.9

Matt

Mundrabilla cheaper by 20c in October. Avoid the rest. All the paid camps are
fairly ordinary, better off to bush camp. As suggested see Camps Book....oldbaz.

Came across ourselves 2 weeks back. Norseman Shell usually has the best fuel price there - Penong usually at least matches Ceduna outlets but more likely to undercut them - only thing is that when we went through, the Penong servo diesel pumps were occupied by large trucks filling up - and endorsement of their pricing I guess. The 'lady of the expeditions' made the following observations -Caiguna 164c, Cocklebiddy was 167c, Mundrabilla 152c, Nullabor 154c, Ceduna 127c. Water is an issue across there as usual - take as much as you can, and pray for mild weather - our heatwave was 'character building'.

Thanks folks it was diesel I should have said.

Obviously very hot across there at the moment over 40 yesterday apparently.

With a tail wind I have about 800km of fuel capacity.

Cheers

hi graham
just read my 2005 diary to source this imfo that might be of help to you and others
there is a good off road parking area 502km east of norseman on the left as you go east suitable for caravans it's about 20km past turn off on left to moonera station
when i stayed there it was'nt big enough for roadtrains etc to get in there so hopefully still the same it's an old camp ground/ access to gravel pit out the back where the road gang stayed when they did the rd there is small mallee tres and bush rounda-bouts and bays

there is also an overnight area just down the track that goes to cape arid nation park/point demster opposite balladonia garage but not sure if it's big enough for larger rigs
there was at that time : may 2005 a very interesting history room/display at the balladonia servo/resturant of the local area history and early day pioneers i found interesting
may be of interest to you /others

just as a matter of interest

in early may 2005 diesel prices::
were norseman bp 129.9caltex 122.9
mundrabiila 126.9
border village 154.9
port augusta 116.9

as far as the heat goes that you may or may not experience on the nulla and the head /cross or hopefully tail winds what ever will be will be and once your out there there's b/all you can do about it some people are lucky and have an enjoyable trip and some never stop telling others what a bugger of a trip it is was
wish all a happy one
i crossed the nulla 3 times with a caravan 1 with camper trailer and 3 times in 4wds and only had 1 hot trip in feb 1971 and that was when a dam lot of the road was just a rough dirt track streaky bay rd is the nices trip if you not in a hurry and follows the coast to port lincoln
so good luck and cheers

We did the trip last week.

Norseman Shell 129.4
Mundrabilla 152.0
Ceduna BP 126.9

The other roadhouses we stopped at (but didn't buy fuel) were 166.9 & 168.9

Thanks folks will fill up at Norseman and work it out from there

We have the van tanks full and 40 litres of water in the car so have about 180 litres.

Thanks a lot.

Well we are across and prices were

Norseman 1.30 Asked prices Reply dont know only been here a few days DUH

Cocklebiddy $1.68 Heaps of trucks there at halfway point apparently.

Madura $1.64

Eucla $1.54 Filled up there


Ceduna $1.25.9

So had a side tail wind all the way to just before Penong.

535 k from Eucla 104.75 litres towing 2850kg 5.1kpl.

Scrubbed the edges of inside of one and outside of other back tyre holding the rig into the wind.

Had a side wind all the way from Kalgoorlie to Esperence and across the Nullabor.