After an hour we stopped at Lake Hart as we could see the lake in the distance. Decided to walk down to the water. It was a magnificant expereience. We walked on the salt flats and saw a mountain of salt piled up from an old saltworks, Emu prints in the ground, reflections in the water and watched trains on the Adelaide - Darwin rail line.
Arrived in Coober Pedy mid afternoon and booked into a caravan park which pretty much resembled an ants nest. It certainly wasn't designed with vehicles like "Moonshine" in mind. The entrance was very narrow and I staked the wall of a tyre on a garden bordered with sleepers. The power point didn't work so the owner plugged us into the next site. The bloke next door came back, found his lead unplugged and wanted to punch me in the nose.
Changed the tyre next morning and got out of there.Looked for a tyre in town and all I was offered was one for over $600!! So decided to take the risk without a spare until we get to Alice Springs.
Noel and Bev whom we had met at Wauchope NSW and also at Port Augusta. were in a a public parking area and they told us about a cheap campsite on the edge of town so we followed him down there and got secure parking with power and water for 12 bucks a night.
The Breakaways is a long, low, broken range of low, weathered mountains of incredible colours 35kms from town, so we spent Saturday afternoon out there. Stopped at the "dogfence"on the way back. At about 6000km its the longest fence in the world and was built to keep dingoes from stock. It runs from Surfers Paradise to west of the Eyre Peninsula on the Nullarbor.
On Sunday we looked at 4 underground churches round town.
Monday it was a private home, a lookout, an underground hotel and a motel and tried our hand at "noodling" late in the afternoon.
Maureen at the salt pile
remains of the salt racks
Goods train from Darwin
Emu footprint
Bruce, is everything built underground??
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