While in Coober Pedy we visted a number of the popular tourist sites. Most living and working in Coober Pedy is done underground but the shopping centre and service stations were all above ground. Opal selling is big with many a shop dedicated to this. A number of the shops also include museums and history tours of life working in a mine with some telling the storie of how opal was first discovered. There are a number of old mines in town setup for tourists to wander through such as Old Timers Mine and Umoona Opal Mine. There is even an underground bookshop and underground arts centre.
Currently we are in Coober Pedy just waiting on the Mail run tour scheduled for Monday the 14th. We were suppose to have been on the tour Monday the 10th but the downpour on Tuesday put a halt to that where Coober Pedy had a years rainfall of 115mm in 1 day. The main street was under water and we had a river flowing past our caravan.
We are currently in Port Augusta preparing for the next leg heading towards Alice springs. We had originally planned to spend a couple of nights free camping roadside somewhere but the forecasted temperatures of 38 degrees and Northerly winds had us looking for a caravan park to run the airconditioner instead. We plan to head off tomorrow when the winds are predicted to blow from the South which is more favorable for us.
Well here we are sitting in Edithburgh our paradise is lost... at least for the day the gentle breases cascading across the water of yesterday has given way to cyclonic, tornado, force 10 caravan rock and rolling winds of today...
We are feet-up in Edithburgh about 250 km South of Port Pirie eastern bottom of the Yorke Peninsula in a nice caravan park right on the foreshore. Any closer the caravan would have to be a boat as we would be in the water. We have so far made our way from Whyalla to Port Augusta then around the western half of the Yorke Peninsula.