Leaving Adelaide on the 16^th, Westwood came to Augusta on the following day, and then pointed his car west across the desert bordering the Great Australian Bight. The Yardea Sands provided some very heavy going and Westwood warned against any attempt to cross them alone in the summer months.

Between Eucla and Balladonia, a distance of three hundred and thirty miles, he met no resident white people at all, but did come across a motor party of two women and a man whose car had broken down. Unable to repair it, they were almost at their last gasp. They had no tools, and not vestige of mechanical knowledge, but Westwood scarcely better off himself in these respects, was able to provide them with some water and probably saved their lives. He spend Christmas with his brother in Widgiemooltha, and later covered the four hundred miles from Coolgardie to the outskirts of Perth in twenty three hours.

There, on 30 December, he was met by a large and admiring escort of motorists, and his car was subsequently displayed in the windows of the local Citroen distributors.

In all he had covered ten thousand seven hundred miles in 148 days of unhurried travel. His worst day's run had been of twelve miles and fifteen or sixteen hours, when he was construction his won road for most of the time. The Citroen had averaged a creditable 43.7 miles per gallon in very adverse circumstances.