What an amazing place Coober Pedy is. Aptly named by the Aborigines (Kupa Piti) which meant white men in a hole. A day of self touring for the Stevo's today. The information centre was a great help to guide us through the numerous options. To see all the different underground buildings from Hotel, to mines, to homes shows the different life lived from below. We visited the Desert Cave Hotel, the Big Winch Look Out, the Serbian Orthodox Church, Umoona Opal Mi...

Spent the morning learning about Woomera history. From Outdoor Aircraft & Missile Museum to Woomera Heritage Centre and Museum. Amazing how countries as large as the US, UK, France & Japan manage to use an outback area like Woomera to test and develop missile technolody. We then made our way to Coober Pedy. Once again the landscape is constantly changing. Still greener than one would expect. Amazing to see the water of Lake Hart in the middle of the...

Long day of travel again. Landscape changed from the Murray River with gums and lush green grass, to Barossa Valley with hills, vines and history, to the industrial seaside Port Pirie & Port Augusta, through to the red barreness outback SA. Thinking we viewed our first of many cracker outback sunsets when we arrived at Woomera. Was then treated to an informative history lesson from 'Hoff' at his bar at the Woomera Traveller's Village. Key Stats KM's - 52...

Gma & Gpa teared up when we left Warrnambool this morning, as did Pen when she said good bye to Harry (Dog). Long day in the car today through western Victoria, plenty of blue gum plantations, vineyards and sheep (especially Merino). Caravan towed well, couple of stops for Nespresso coffee from the van. Key Stats KM's - 525; Steps - 8,378; Max Temperature - 19; Fish - 0; Pokemon's - 6 (17 Total) Accomodation - Murray Bridge Showgrounds ($10) Petrol ...