Day 3: Port Augusta to Coober Pedy
After a reasonably noisy night in Port Augusta, due to the location of the park being close to the highway (not quite as bad as Arafat), we headed off early to make the 500km trip to Coober Pedy. The purpose today was to get to Coober Pedy at a reasonable time and set up for a 3 day stay. We hope to spend the next three days seeing Coober Pedy itself and also heading out to Oodnadatta, William Creek and Lake Eyre. Today's drive was literally 500km of mostly flat, red desert and small green shrubs - the occasional large rock formation would appear - but mostly nothingness for 500km.
We made two stops one in Pimba at Spuds Roadhouse and one in Glendambo before arriving in Coober Pedy which was the most exciting part of the day. Coober Pedy is an interesting town, a large opal mining town with a lot of the town being built underground due to the heat in summer. The scenery is mostly lunar like not a great deal of green here.
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| Road to Coober Pedy |
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| Road to Coober Pedy |
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| Road to Coober Pedy |
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| Spuds Roadhouse |
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| Glendambo |
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| Glendambo |
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| Port Augusta to Coober Pedy |
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| Coober Pedy |
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| Mines coming into Coober Pedy |
On top of houses built underground
We're following your travels with hearts fluttering and mouths open. I'm having to restrain Colin from trading in the Honda on a four wheel drive. However, it's terrible to admit that your blog, TV and magazines might have to be enough for us for the time being. The Rock looks amazing- enjoy!!!!
ReplyDeletePlenty of grandparents, children and grandchildren out here together - we thought we would invite you on our next adventure - Colin better start searching :)
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