page_title: Cocklebiddy, Western Australia
section_title: Present day
hierarchical_section_title: Cocklebiddy, Western Australia / Present day
caption_attribution_description: English: An old style playground, constructed of timber and steel, at the Cocklebiddy roadhouse, on the Nullarbor Plain, Western Australia. Photo taken from the forecourt of the roadhouse, looking towards the Eyre Highway, which is visible in the background.
context_page_description: Cocklebiddy is a small roadhouse community located on the Eyre Highway in Western Australia. It is the third stop after Norseman on the journey east across the Nullarbor Plain. The area is noted for its caves and lakes.
  It is the nearest locality to the south coast feature of Twilight Cove, which is 26 km to the south. Cocklebiddy follows the time zone used by Eucla of UTC+8:45.
context_section_description: Like other locations in the Nullarbor Plain area, the area consists of little more than a roadhouse. The current business name of the roadhouse is the Wedgetail Inn and like most other Nullarbor establishments has access to satellite television, as well as providing caravan park, and hotel motel facilities.
  The Cocklebiddy area is noted for its caves, the most notable of which is Cocklebiddy cave – a single passage more than 6 km long, of which around 90% is underwater and only accessible via cave diving. In August 1983, a French team set a world record here for the longest cave dive in the world. In October that year, the French record was beaten by an Australian team when Hugh Morrison of Western Australia pushed another 280 metres beyond where the French had tied off.  In 1995 South Australian cave diver Christopher Brown went another 20 metres further again, and in late 2008 much of the cave's more distant regions were explored, mapped (using radio-location "pingers" designed and operated by Ken Smith) and videotaped by Craig Challen and Richard Harris et al. using rebreather technologies. (Challen and Harris would later be better known for their involvement in the 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue.)
  Cocklebiddy was visited in 2007 by the Australian comical duo, Hamish and Andy.
  A number of five unique species of Restionaceae (a tussock-like plant) named Harperia, Loxocarya, Onychosepalum, Platychorda and Tremulinawere  exist 15–20 kilometres in a somewhat south westerly direction of Cocklebiddy.
caption: The playground at the roadhouse.
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