Glendambo - Coober pedy

Hi all We are in the middle of australian outback - not much internet here.... desert all around - bye (later details) In coober pedy we are having lots of fun touring underground homes and opal mining sites we even found a few low grade opal stones in a field here. 70% of all the residents here live underground and it is very dry and hot. we went to a star gazing tour last night and it was fun too (with lasers and telescopes) - so many stars out here.

pictures:

the "breakaways" colourful hills about 20Km out in the desert off road from cooper pedy.


as you can see the flys are attacking us all the - australian flys are real buggers they want to sit on your eyes all the time and there are tons of them all over the outback !

the endless dog fence - runs for about 5000Km slicing australia so that dingos don't go and eat all the sheep herds.

cooper pedy - yes this is how a typical street looks like.

signs on the road ways near cooper pedy - as you can see there are so many pot holes there that no one know where they are any more. also note the bullet holes in the sign - people get board driving zillions of kilometers out here :)

the stuart highway - the road running from south australia to the north.
the desert dirt in the outback is red (because of the iron) and so is the road.

now this is what I like !

at the breakaways with a few new zealand friends.

Nitai admiring himself in the mirror

cooper pedy entry sign - that is the symbol of the city - it's a makeshift car vacum cleaner that sweeps all the dirt out of the holes that ppl dig.

breakaways again ...

a typical living room in a typical house in cooper pedy - nice and cool underground

our caravan park at cooper pedy.