Coober Pedy

Arrived here tired and battered after a long day on the road. Checked the Oodnadatta Track at Marla on the way here to see if it was safe to travel but 4WD was suggested…maybe next time.
Coober Pedy is a very desolate place, the caravan park has no grass and the trees looked good but when we read that the ground had to be drilled to put the trees in it kinda hits home how tough it must be out here. After a good nights rest we headed off to the “Dog Fence” its now 5300km long used to be 9500km, there’s a lovely drive out of the town through The Breakaways and over looking Moon Plain…called that for a very good reason – there is nothing over a foot high and the ground looks like a moonscape, a very, very desolate place.
The Breakaways look like more diggings for opals but these are made by nature and quite remarkable…. I took about 70 photos but me feckin’ computer has put them somewhere and I can’t find them, obviously still recovering from the drink…the computer NOT me!
We visited “Old Timers Mine” what a hoot, ye get to put on a hardhat and wander through an old mine, great fun and thank God for the hardhat, I bounced off me head off the roof a few times. They have an area close to town where you can dig around and see if you can find any Opal, its called the “noodling area”, while I was in the caravan park office a young girl showed up to thank the chap there for telling here where the public “noodling area” was as she had found a large opal after she cracked open a rock with a hammer…she had had it valued … $4500…hate that!...off to Woomera tomorrow...