Coober Pedy

We left the beautiful Olga’s and Uluru and heading down South quickly, not alone because there is nothing in between except Coober Pedy but also because we are in a hurry as you will remember I have told you we have to go to Victoria, still don’t know why hey!! well I still not going to tell ya haha, first we have to go to Coober Pedy so you have to be patient.

On our way we passed a border again, we went from Northern Territory to South Australia, we had a free camp just behind this sign, yes! there were more people there fortunately....

Coober Pedy is a opal mining town and as soon as you come near, you can see hundreds of humps, which looks very impressive…..

We have been here before but then is was terrible hot and so much flies you were black when you came out of the caravan. The only thing you could do was sneaking from one cave to the other. This time we had a lovely 24 degree so we could explore the town a bit better. 

Still it is very nice to go underground and see how they live. Yes you read it well, a lot people live underground and also shops, churches, restaurants, bars etc. are build underground which has of course to do with the heat! the temperature underground is always constant. 

Very interesting things to see in this "building", it is an underground hotel with a museum, bar and more entertainment......

Scary isn't it!!

Except for the mining fields there is really nothing around Coober Pedy, I wouldn't want to be buried there (but actually I wouldn't want to be buried anywhere, haha ).
And because it's so hot and hardly rains , the water is very scarce, on our caravan park were no water taps at the sites, you could buy water for 20 cents to fill the caravan tank and also we had to pay 20 cents for 3 minutes shower. This is the first time we had to pay for showers in Australia. There was also a water fill up station in the town centre, special for caravans and campers. 

A few more interesting things we passed......

an underground church.......

We had a beautiful renovated caravan park and guess what, we were the only ones there the second night which you know from the free camps, we don't like! But there was no use of moving, just be brave and keep your ears open. Most probably we are just a few scary chickens.

Before we got to Port Augusta, where the normal life is beginning again (I mean NO outback anymore) we had to do one stop, also a free one and it was really in one word gorgeous!! Lake Hart, which is a salt lake, look at our nice spot;

We walked down to have a good look, it looks like you are standing on snow, or ice....

Back to the caravan.....

we had a nice relaxing evening.....

with a great sunset.......

The mysterious Victoria story is coming near, next time you'll know!!

So......keep on looking!

Cheers,