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Kent and Bec's Big Island Adventure
From Coober Pedy, we played "spot the cow" or "spot the dead cow" to pass the time. Pretty boring drive, except for a couple of lakes when we got closer to Pimba. We also detoured into Woomera before parking at Pimba for the night. Woomera was interesting - a town developed to house/service people working with testing rockets in the 1960s and 70s. There was some really good information at the visitors centre and displays of recovered rocket parts and fighter jets. Callen had fun wandering around all the rockets and planes anyway! And we found it fascinating to learn about Australia's more recent involvement in landing on, and taking samples from, an asteroid. The weird thing about Woomera though...big town, great facilities, but no people!
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