Coober Pedy and Home

RB -- Have just about caught up now, so this will be our last blog entry,  we are actually back home now, and missing the sunshine already.  But good to be back with the family.  Have included the last lot of pics to complete the journey.  Our last real stop was Coober Pedy as keen  to see the place as heard so much about it.  We really enjoyed our brief stop over, but can't say we will be moving there in a hurry.  Its an interesting place but really depressed at the moment as the cost of living and operating has sky rocketed for them to the point many have moved out.  From a town of about 7000 it  has about 2500.  Some large mining companies have/are moving in and the small operators are moving out.

 Caught this little guy  (thorny devil) on the road to CP, but unfortunately about 10 secs after this pic the idiot behind us moved out of his way to run over him, really sad, just wished I had kicked him off the road before they shot past.

Open cut mine

The Breakaways, approx 20 km out of CP  (at least a section of them)

The Dog fence  East of the Breakaways

Under ground house we visited

The mine under the house showing the old hand dug mine and blow a machine made hole

inside the Greek Orthodox  church, it was amazing

Sturt Desert Pea in full bloom on the side of the road

We paid a quick visit to Woomera, which is still a department of defence town.  These are some of the rockets etc  that were tested at Woomera now a part of the outdoor exhibition, interesting

After CP these is km after km of nothing like the pic above but then you get to Port Augusta where we stayed the night before heading towards Vic  South of Port Augusta was beautiful, lots of cropping and very productive land

We motored through Adelaide, but had to stop at Handorf for some genuine Beesting, very yum.   We put in a big day and got to Stawell , 800+ km from Port Augusta.     We have been away almost 8 weeks and experienced our first rain in Stawell.

Its all over,  15000 km later, It has been fantastic, seen so much, done so much, all new territory for us and so much we didn't see, better start planning for the next trip!