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While journeying through the vast outback of the Northern Territory, we met a young couple from Scotland, who told us about a unique 18-hole par 72 golf course along the Nullarbor Plains of Australia.  It peeked our interest!  We enjoy golfing, plus it's located on the highway we plan on taking. They explained to us that it's considered to be the world's longest golf course spanning 1,365 kilometres.  You can begin at either end of the course depending on which way you are traveling.  Each hole is located at a participating roadhouse along the Eyre Highway from Ceduna, South Australia to Kalgoorie, Western Australia.  The Nullarbor Links marries one the world's most popular sports with one of Australia's greatest road trips!  It traverses a region of contrasting geographic features, unspoilt landscapes, azure waters, Australian wildlife, eucalypt and hardwood forests, early explorer museums, walking trails, caves, fossicking, fishing, and farm stays.  After learning all this we decided right then and there we were up for this challenge, so the young Scottish chap gave us their golf equipment and wished us fun!

  As you can see, our equipment was very basic...2 and 8 iron and a bag of balls, plus we had to make our own tees out of plastic drink bottles.

  We started in Ceduna, and this is the first hole.   A very rough fairway...tee-off box not much better, and the first two holes had oiled greens.  The rest were astro turf.

This hole had a landing strip through the center of it, and a few wombat holes.

We considered the above picture to be the snake hole because we were warned and told to be careful of snakes.  Now, normally snakes such as the ones we have back home don't bother me too much, but here in Australia one snake bite could end your golf game and your life!  We decided to only chip and putt, my drive is not that consistent!

    This hole was fairly decent.  It came with a clubhouse, bathrooms/showers.  So after we played this hole we took advantage of the showers!

 As you can see the holes we played were pretty rough, but we giggled the whole way through and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves!!  The last 2 holes were in Kalgoorie on a beautiful golf course!!  We were in heaven!