Jake on the road – week 1

On the first day we got up at 5.30 am to be on the road at 5.55.

We drove to Renmark, crossing the border on the way.  We saw Kangaroo’s, rabbits and emu’s.  One emu we nearly ran over in the car.

The second day we drove for 4 hours and stopped at a truck stop overnight.

Day 3 we were in the car for 8 hours!  All the way to Coober Pedy.  We saw some wege tailed eagles and we stopped at Woomera which is where the army used to test bombs.  We saw planes, rockets and missiles.

Day 4 we drove around Coober Pedy.  We went to an underground Catholic Church, I saw a hole off to one side and asked dad what the hole was for.  He said holey water.  We then went to Faye’s an underground house dug by hand by 3 women.

We went noodling, that is searching the dug up mounds for opals.  I found lots of different rocks, my favorite was gypsum.  We went back to our campsite and that night we slept underground, please don’t call me a hobbit!  80% of people in Coober Pedy live underground.

Fifth day we were back on the road to Uluru.  We stopped at a petrol station and there was some emu’s there.  We didn’t go all the way to Uluru and stayed at another truck stop.

Day 6 we played in the morning, restarting the fire.  We then drove to the Ayers rock campground and set up.  When we arrived we saw and got to pat 2 camels walking through the camp.  We then went into the shopping square and saw some  Aboriginal dancing.  they asked us to dance with them.  It was great fun.