Adelaide has been a bit of a quiet break for us. Since leaving the outback, its nice to be in a big city. The capital of South Australia, Adelaide is one of the oldest settlements in Australia and very Victorian, and well preserved. Mt Lofty, just outside the city limits, provided us with amazing views of the city skyline and surrounding waters. We passed through Port Augusta on our way, just a sleepy shipping town, and our first touch of rain in weeks! It h...

Can you believe that we have spend the past 48 hours underground? Coober Pedy is an opal mining town where most of the residents live and work in a hole in the ground! The Aboriginals gave the area the name because it translates to "white man's hole." The average air temperature in the shade is usually about 35/98, so the early settlers dug their mines, and when they were empty, turned them into homes because the underground temperature is only about 25/76 deg...