Cliffs at the Great Australian Bight

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The photo shows the cliffs of part of the Great Australian Bight, a large open bay off the central southern coast of Australia. Much of it is due south of the Nullarbor Plain, a treeless plain, and largely uninhabited. The Eyre Highway passes close to the cliffs in places and you can drive in off the highway to view the cliffs, camp for the night and hopefully see southern right whales perhaps when they come from their summer feeding grounds in the Antarctic to calve and breed. They do not feed until they return to the Antarctic. The Nullarbor Plain is very flat and receives very little rainfall. The underlying limestone features a number of caves, and is a favoured location with speleologists or cave explorers. The photo was taken by Vince and is used with permission.