Great Australian Bight

It was a funny, funny story.

When they were filming Jaws, a lot of the live footage they filmed here in Australia, and they filmed a lot of it off the coast of Perth or in what they call the Great Australian Bight.

You froze it again.

Are you getting me? Yeah.

Now, this is really fascinating.

And for anyone not familiar with the Nullarbor, it's that vast, flat, almost treeless limestone plateau that spans about 200,000 square kilometres along the Great Australian Bight coastline, stretching between South Australia and Western Australia, a pretty remote part of the world.

It's actually the world's largest single exposure of limestone bedrock.

But you could say it's not so much the plane itself rather what lies beneath the Nullarbor that's stirred up interest at the moment.

The Telegraph reported, Indeed, Mr Wareham added, Captain Knight was inclined to think the vessel was being put too low down at the stern.

But it would be revealed that Yongola had, back when it had been crossing the Great Australian Bight as part of its regular route, 164 tonnes of pig iron as ballast.

This had been removed when Yongola started doing the northern route.

Had that made a difference to Yongola's fate? This would be a question for the inquiry.

The Kalgoorlie Western Argus used the phrase unlucky steamer in its headline over this story.

Unlucky or lucky? It depended on how you looked at it.

Kumbana sailed from Fremantle to Sydney across the Great Australian Bight.

Up and out of the water at Mort's Bay, the truth was plain to see.

And that was with a stop at Forest on the east-west rail line, which is in the middle of nowhere, obviously, the Nullarbor, to get some fuel.

And then down to Nullarbor Roadhouse for a burger and over the cliffs for a look at the Great Australian Bight and into Port Pirie.

Look at these

photos.

And that was with a stop at Forest on the east-west rail line, which is in the middle of nowhere, obviously, the Nullarbor, to get some fuel.

And then down to Nullarbor Roadhouse for a burger and over the cliffs for a look at the Great Australian Bight and into Port Pirie.

Look at these

photos.

And I think that was part of what appealed to me.

I love Victoria, which is one of the states at the bottom of Australia, looks out onto the ocean, the Bight, as they call it, the Great Australian Bight, which basically becomes the very cold ocean down there.

And I think it's a really pretty state.

I think there was also a little trick of the timing, which was that I cover a lot of sport.

It's off the coast of, uh, Western Australia.

It's actually, if you looked at a map of Australia, and you, you cut it in half right down the center of the Great Australian Bight, there's these amazing group of islands-

Mm-hmm

... where, um, you know, we think it's a pupping ground.

And I've seen next to a bloke from Austria who's a surgeon, and he was out here teaching some surgical techniques.

We take off, we go over, you know, to go to Perth, you go down south of the Great Australian Bight, and you hit the ground around Albany.

But we're going over south of Australia on our way.

And he said, oh, gee, this is a big country.