Interesting how the countryside and the flora get flatter and more monotonous as you head south. Quite a bit of variety in NT, less so as we went into SA. Eventually it was only a couple of varieties of acacia and flat, flat land. Getting close to Coober Pedy, even the acacias gave up..... well except along the creek beds.
A couple, of the many species of acacia in the desert, were in flower. That was probably one of our highlights. Hitting 5,555 km on the trip on another, Marjan hitting the brakes to avoid killing two bustards on the Stuart Highway was a nail biting highlight. Yes bUstards, not a typo, look it up. If it had been the other ones..... well....... who knows. Finally the landscape as we came to Coober Pedy is really strange, with mounds of white/ yellow sand, from the opal mining, dominating....photos tomorrow perhaps....too tired after 680km to shoot them
So having found God we have a solution to our heat issue...... (thanks Liz)...... we are staying in a cave. Probably everyone already knows, but a lot of places in Coober Pedy are underground to mediate the temperature extremes. Our hotel is built into the side of a hill. Our ceilings are bare rock and most of the walls as well. Our bedroom has a seam of gypsum running through the wall. How is gypsum trading at present? I have a shovel in the car!
Marjan gets comfortable underground! A book and a cuppa. A simple woman......but very clean.
Because we are on/in a hill, the owners have built a staircase over the roofline and you stand on the roof/hilltop. next to the air ducts, antennae, air conditioners et al, to check out the view of Coober Pedy at sunset. Weird!
I think the third from the left is our bathroom air outlet.
The sun sets
Looking back towards Lake Eyre and the moon
The lights of Coober Pedy Central
If you look carefully you can see the little mounds of mining activity on the left side of the mansion on the hill
A short one today.
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