Centre of the Country

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


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