HAPPY B'DAY THOMSIE.....& TO OUR FRIENDS IN BATEMANS THIS W' END ENJOY WE MISS YOU'S
Well we have arrivd in Coober Pedy a town we think hasn't changed much over the past 40yrs. Terry has been sick with the flu for the past 3 days and hasn't come out of bed or had a beer so he must be crook.
Anyway here is what has happened since our last blog. We headed off from Port Augusta early Wed morn looking at Ranges view and Island Lagoon lookout(great views). We arrived at Pimba a tiny town just off the hwy, we set up in a large free parking area near Spuds Roadhouse,it was safe to leave the vans so we headed for the short drive into Woomera, as you are probably all most aware of all the rockets & satelites etc that were sent up from here , the town is a history of all them, lots of planes, rockets & equipment scattered around & a great museum, anyone interested, it is a must see.It is also a Army & Air base now as well.It was rather chilly there so after all our sight seeing we headed back to our site to find about another 25 vans had come in as well, a great spot obviously.Next day we drove 110 klms to a town called Andamooka, established in the early 1900's.....well Terry's decription of the place was "the closet thing to the arsehole of the earth"...oh my god, the most untidiest, dirty, dusty, dry, messy, unkept place you could ever step foot onto, it has to be seen to be believed ! We then headed to Roxby Downs about 30 ks back from there & the total opposite, mind you it only was established in the1980's & is a wealthy mining town, very expensive to live.No sight seeing here but we did have a lovely Gluten Free Pizza & Pasta lunch !! The next day, Friday we headed (3 girls driving) towards Coober Pedy, lots of different scenes along the way from beautiful lakes to the flattest barren countryside. We arr before lunch & booked into a Underground Camping/ Caravan Pk just outside of town. Tents go underground (thank goodness).the girls wouldn't like to do it but the boys reckon they would give it a go !! After setting up we headed into town to see the underground homes (one had a swimming pool in it !!) & motels & shops. A definite must see for all who comes out here, its not a tidy looking town with all the opal mining & fossicking equipment & piles & piles of dirt & rock that has been dug up scattererd everywhere, and air vents poking up all over the place ( that is how you can tell where theres a home !!) Its unbelievable to see, more than 80% of the homes are underground.We went down into the Serbian & Catholic Churches..just beautiful. We had a mine tour included at our van site so we did that about 7pm, very interesting but one thing we have decided ....we are not becoming prospecters !! The days are cold but the nights are freezing, thats why they live underground, temps stays at about 23 to 25 degrees all year and in summer outside can get up to 45 to 60.On Sat we headed out to the see the Dingo fence, Moon Plains & The Breakaways about 40 minutes drive.....well what a WOW moment....unbelievable to see The Breakaways( its where they filmed BEYOND THUNDERDOME MAD MAX) was like arriving on another planet, just incredible, we are actually heading back there Monday morning at 6.30am to see the sunrise.Today has been a day of washing, tidying, maitanance & photos & BLOGGING !!We called it our rest day but not much chance for that so far...but we have got a baked dinner on for tea & if its as cold as last night (around 1 degrees) we will be crawlling into bed reasonably early. So thats about it for today, hi to all, hope you are all having a good long weekend (heard some of you have had a wet, cold one !) We are heading off here on Tues towards Uluru hoping to get there about Fri 17th June, Take care, miss you all,with lots of love Rans & Carol xxxxx
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