Coober Pedy
Sea Topaz
Duncan Briggs
Sat 12 Mar 2011 07:36
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29.00 S 134.55 E
We drove along the long and boring road for many
hours, but it was worth it. A fascinating place. Again full of history, we
visited some old opal mines and a working one. We also did buy some opals, not
many as I do not really like them. We visited the desert at sunset to get the
photos of the red sand and hills and the moon landscape. Unfortunately they have
had a fair amount of rain this year so the desert was green as far as you could
see... Very unusual, so we were lucky to see it, but did not get the photo's we
were hoping for. We met some interesting people of all kinds of
nationalities.
We stayed in an hotel with underground rooms, nice
and cool and interesting.
Today we drove back to Port Augusta and then
started heading east in the direction of Sydney. We are spending the night in a
small town called Orroroo; very friendly people.
The road into the outback (note
green desert)
  Hart Lake (salt lakes on
the way)
Our room in the
"dug-out"
The Underground Motel
In the Old Timer
Mine
Duncan and Jimmy in Tom's working Mine
Opal in the rock wall
 The
Break-away
Hills 5,500
kilometers of dog fence to keep the dingoes out
 Sunset at the
"Break-away Hills"
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