Hi cover picture is of Chris having an imaginary tee off on the Coober Pedy golf course. It is actually 18 holes and the (greens) brown earth have oil put on them to stop the high winds blowing the sand away. There are signs that say Keep off the Grass!!!!!!!! We went on our tour this morning which is definitely the way to go in places like this as you learn so much more about the town the way it operates and survives in the conditions. Our tour guide was an 80 ...

Well we made it to Coober Pedy at lunch time and what a fabulous experience so far. We awoke to clear skies and the weather has been perfect today at around 20deg. Very RED but they have had a lot of rain here recently which is quite unusual and a few of the tourist attractions are not running and people on some of the 4 wheel drive roads are stranded with people unable to get back to town. In the photo you can see some of the mounds of dirt that house differen...

Chris writes. Hi guys, well we are finally on our way up into the middle of this big country which is what I was really looking forward too. The landscape has changed from green to a very dry red dirt country with roads disappearing into the distance. The miles have just ticked away today (400)with the van in cruise control and the cd's blasting out easy listening tunes .the speed limit is 110 k/m but with light traffic the van just floats along at 95k/m and i...

Hi from Port Augusta which is about three hours from Adelaide at the top of Spencer Gulf. We left Peterborough where the last blog was from to travel here and the landscape changed all the way got to look more like New Zealand in places. It was nice to see the sea again after being without it since Melbourne I'm sure I will miss the feeling of being near it as we are used to in Dunedin. Port Augusta is the gateway to the Nullabor and the Outback and there are l...

Hi from Peterborough. The cover picture is Chris doing the washing in the middle of nowhere. We came across this clothesline on the side of the road quite a hoot. We are freedom camping outside Peterborough this little town which is rather quaint. All we have done since being here is go to a Steam Train Museum where we went in one of the carriages from the famous Ghan Train. This carriage was taken out of service on the 1980's but even seemed very small back in ...