As one drives west across South Australia towards Western Australia, one leaves the settled country of the wheatbelt, passing through a belt of semi-arid mallee scrub before reaching the vast treeless Nullarbor Plain.
The Nullarbor Plain is the subject of the next gallery. But almost immediately upon reaching it, one can turn off the highway for about 10 km and reach the head of the Great Australian Bight where the plain drops abruptly 80 m into the ocean.
The Great Australian Bight is that ocean that looks like, on a map of Australia, like a huge mouthful has been eaten out of the mid-south. Its 'head' is the northernmost point of ocean.
Annually, Southern Right Whales move up to Head of Bight from the Southern Ocean in order to mate and calve. That's what we went there for; the amazing coastal landscapes were a bonus.