As me and Ann Marie had a bit of a late nite we didn’t quite make it up for breakfast at 6.30am surprisingly. Fiona actually got up even earlier to see the sun rise the crazy person she is!! Half of our bus were moving on up to Alice Springs that day but the other half of us were meeting up with another group to do the rock tours. So we didn’t really hav to be up at a specific time, got up about 8.30am which was still pretty early. SO got up and showered and just lazed about. Went for a wander around Coober Pedy, but being such a small place there wasn’t much to do! Bought a wee fly net, which we got for a bargain $4 cause we chatted with the guy, because we had heard the flies further north were really annoying, considering we had experienced some the previous day which had driven us crazy! We even visited the underground church, which was Catholic and it was a Sunday – r u not proud of me Mum?!

We also went to a kangaroo feeding thing they had on. We were a bit early so had a look about the shop at the Aboriginal art and the didgeridoos. I really want to buy a didgeridoo but they cost so much L So we then watched the baby kangaroos being fed which was pretty cool. The babies here were all orphaned and r being raised to hopefully be returned to the wild. There r a couple who r going to stay there tho due to special circumstances. After feeding was finished we got to hold the baby kangaroos. They r so cute and soft i just wanted to take one home with me! The one i held was called nula and even tho she is grey in colour she is a blue furred red kangaroo, or something like that! U even hav to hold them by their tails in case they decide to take a suicidal jump out of ur arms! It was just a totally awesome thing to have done!

At lunch we met up with the other half of the group and had pizza again. After lunch we went on a tour of an opal mine (Coober Pedy is very famous for its opals). We watched a very dated film all about opals and then were taken underground to the mines. We also got to see what one of the underground houses looks like. Cant imagine permanently living underground with no natural light! Apparently people kept extending their houses and accidentally knocking into their neighbours, so they had to put a stop to it and fine people for extending without permission.

We went to The Breakaways for our 1st sunset viewing. It was pretty awesome, took loads of photos. However one of the Dutch girls made a really insulting comment to Derek (our 2nd tour guide who is Aboriginal). She asked him y Aborigines look like apes and also y he doesn’t!! Now for all that English isn’t her 1st language, u would surely know not to say that and even when u realised the person was insulted u would apologise straight away! On the way home to our cave we stopped off to see this famous Dog Fence. It was significant for Aborigines because of their lost generation, 2 girls walked all the way down this fence as it was the only way they knew how to get home once they had escaped. It is also there to keep the dingos out of farm land and to stop them attacking live stock.