Moores on the move » Reese https://moore.darkowl.com.au Our 2013 trip around Australia Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:26:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Centre of the Country https://moore.darkowl.com.au/?p=163 https://moore.darkowl.com.au/?p=163#comments Sun, 02 Jun 2013 11:41:09 +0000 Greg Moore http://moore.darkowl.com.au/?p=163 Continue reading →]]> Wow!  It took ages, we had to drive for 8 hours just to get to Coober Pedy.

When we got there we realized that the people are hobbits, over 80% live underground.  Isn’t that so weird?

DSC_0117We did some sight seeing around Coober Pedy.  We stayed at Riba’s underground camping and got to sleep under ground in a cave.  In the morning  we then went to Crocodile Harry`s house.  It looked like it had been made by blasting the cave out with dynamite.

We also went to a kangaroo orphanage.  They take in injured kangaroos or ones who mother has bit hit by a car or truck.  They had a number of kangaroos and a baby Joey.

Then we went  noodling which is searching through piles of mined sandstone, looking for opals.  I didn’t find any though.

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The next few days we were on the road again.  But then we got
ock, the big rock, Uluru.  We did the base walk.  All around it was a 10k walk, we got back to the car in about 5 hours it was pretty tough but we did it.  to the r


]]> https://moore.darkowl.com.au/?feed=rss2&p=163 0 Off we go! https://moore.darkowl.com.au/?p=116 https://moore.darkowl.com.au/?p=116#comments Tue, 28 May 2013 23:35:25 +0000 Greg Moore http://moore.darkowl.com.au/?p=116 Continue reading →]]> Off we go!  28/5/13 on the first day we got up at 5:45am and set off to Renmark.  We spent ages in the car and went over DSC_0025the border into SA.  The first night we slept at Renmark, I saw heaps of kangaroos and a possum.  At lunch time we left for a four hour drive and almost ran over an emu.  We went to a truck stop at Orroroo and stayed there for the night.

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