On the road again to Alice Springs.

 Left Coober Pedy after getting fuel and filling with water at the water filling point in the center of town near the visitors centre, 15cents for 30 litres of water.

 Main street

 The Desert Rose Hotel

 The space ship from the movie Pitch Black that was made in Coober Pedy

 Tunneling machine

 Movies made in and around Coober Pedy

 Water filling machines

In the caravan park

It is overcast and quite nice outside at the moment lots of flies and suppose to get to the low 30`s today. The country side is looking really green around here from the rain a few weeks ago. 

We stopped at Pootnoura rest area for a cuppa with the flies, so all sat in the caravan for peace and no arm waving. 

 

Decide Marla south rest area was it for the day, so setup to rest. Tim found that the fridge in the van was not working on 12 volt, so he and Graham pulled things apart to solve the problem. The list of things to buy in Alice Springs grew longer. They turned the fridge onto gas to keep it nice and cold. Having decided that a heavy wire just for the fridge was needed to run from the front of the Toyota to the fridge in van, more on the list…

Desma cooked a yummy Banana cake which we all scoffed off at afternoon tea. We met a lovely young Swedish lady traveling by herself on a trip to Australia. She has only done the east coast and down through the middle to Adelaide then back to Melbourne to fly home. She hopes to come back and do WA and the Pilbara in the next couple of years or so. A lovely sunset had the cameras out.

Off again in the morning the border being our next stop. The country is still looking very green in places and there is quite a lot of water laying in places we can see from the road. Arriving at the border we were not impressed by the state of the public toliets, some people are downright disgusting with what they do.

Tim was a real gentleman and cleaned up the disgusting mess so it is fit for others to use!!!!!!!!

 Continuing on we came across 4 young Thursday islanders stopped on the side of the road. It seemed that they had seized their motor in the car, after the boys tried to start it for them with no luck. 

We left them with more water and continued onto Erldunda and informed them of their plight.

We moved onto Desert Oaks Rest Area for the night, a lovely spot alongside the road it is also a truck stop and we have to say the ones that came in during the night were all very quiet and considerate of the people sleeping there.

The ranges in the distance are just wonderful to many pictures to put them all up though I try to pick the best for you.

Next stop will be Temple Bar Caravan Park about 15ks out of Alice Springs for a couple of days to restock the food and shop for whats on the list. A site is only $22 a night with $2 for power per day.

 Caravan park is at the base of this range.

We are camped right at the base of this rocky range in the caravan park.

See you next time cheers from us 4.

On the move again

After spending 8 days at Point Lowly we started heading north.

The Petrochemical plant has grown since last time though One Steel in Whyalla is having problem is not good for the town. 

It was raining as we pulled out of there on the way to Port Augusta, where we fuelled up then onto the Stuart Highway to our next camp spot.

We had a tail wind which helped to push us along. The country looks different going this way, seems all new to us.

 A lot more road kill this time we have also seen some Wedge tail Eagles feeding on the roadkill as well. Very dangerous for them as when a vehicle comes along they don’t have time to take off and get out of the way, the end result they are hit and killed. 

Woomera was our destination but The military museum at Woomera was not open so decided not to go in there.

We stopped at Spuds Roadhouse the turn off to Woomera for a lunch and loo break. After hot chips, salad and cuppa  we were ready to move again onto Lake Hart to camp.

 

Lake Hart is salt and in the shape of a heart lots of flies greeted us when we stepped out of the vehicles after Graham had done some cultivating of the earth…….

 

We had another cuppa then did a wander down to the lake, we stopped at the top of the sand hill and took photos of others out on the lake.

 Lake Hart

Next morning we were off again for Coober Pedy it was a lovely sunny day a real change after it being overcast and raining at Point Lowly.

The country looks quite green in places which is a real change from our last trip through here where it was very dry and dead looking.   It seems that when hills and ridges appear there is a change in the trees and shrubs they being much taller then when it flattens out again it goes back to being very low shrubby blue bush stuff.

 Morning tea stop

Kathy sneaked into the drivers seat and drove half the distance to Coober Pedy only  the second time she has driven towing the caravan. She seemed quite comfortable and confident, go girl!

Only staying here to rest and relax, do the blog, charge all the batteries ready for the next part where we will free camp on the way to Alice Springs.

All is going well after having to buy two new batteries for the caravan and Engels in the Toyota.

Take care we will return.