Coober Pedy is Australia's most productive Opal field. The towns name means 'white fellows hole in the ground' apparently. After the piles of rubble in cone shapes the next thing you notice is the danger signs. The sign read 'do not run, beware deep shafts, don't walk backwards' each illustrated with someone plummeting to their death.... Excellent - we won't bother getting out of the camper :/
We drove through the town, sticking to the roads! There is no greenery. It's just rubble. The shops were all closed by the time we got there. There were large mounds of rubble with front doors and lots of chimneys. I thought it looked like a deserts version of the teletubbies home....
Ok honestly, i dont know whether it was because we'd freaked ourselves out with scary stories BUT it looked alot like'Hills have eyes' was filmed here!... There were a few places saying b&b but they looked like they belonged to a shanti town. Every house seemed to have a rusted car outside. If it wasn't a car it was a truck.
We settled on 'Oasis campsite'. It cost us $30 to park up with electricity. It felt safer so we paid it.
Lee set up the back of the camper, plugging us into the mains, whilst I started on dinner. Noodles and soup! This is an awesome little camper. There was loads of room.
We watched tele (the camper had a tele) whilst we booked our train out of Melbourne to Sydney.
[We booked a countrylink train over night (accommodation sorted for 1 night) it was only $130 for us both].
Then we went bed ready for tomorrow's drive.