Well, the weather certainly has changed over the last 12 hours! We woke up to not a breath of air, and the temperature climbing by the minute. We packed up, and departed the lovely Cactus Beach on our way to Venus Bay. It was a slow 21km back out to Eyre Highway - the road seemed to have deteriorated in 2 days! A highlight was a ski boat with a knee boarder on the back at a small lake - not something we expected to see at all. At Penong we spent some time fi...

Given the time changes, we were all out of whack, so didn't get up until about 10am. The night was beautiful and quite breezy. Surprising, as we thought the temperatures across the Nullarbor would always be hot - as luck would have it, the southerly breeze is keeping things just right for the moment, but with hot weather to come! Around lunchtime, we jumped in the cars and went down to Point Sinclair: there's a jetty and a netted area for swimming (created fo...

Eucla was great - the caravan park was up so high and the view was fantastic. A beautiful breeze was coming off the southern ocean, and there were crows flying around - it reminded us of the snowy mountains actually - similar bird, tree and plant life for some reason. We left around 9am, and our first stop was the Bunda Cliffs lookout - a superb spot to see the ocean pound against 80m cliffs, and the shrubs were very interesting and the vegetation greener than...

Firstly, thanks everyone for the messages you've been posting! It's great for all of us to hear from our friends. Easy start to today with yummy pancakes for breakfast. We dropped Dad off at the Coober Pedy Golf Course and ventured to the public noodling area (noodling is where you sift through the discarded mullock (ie, dirt) for opals). We had better luck at the Old Timer's Mine and the kids got some nice colourful 'opals'. Up the road was "The Big Winc...

Renee & Mum had a lovely sleep-in this morning J. Eventually, we made our way into Coober Pedy town and had a coffee/juice at the Underground Restaurant - George the Greek owner was very friendly and told us all about the history of the restaurant. We then joined the Stuart Range Caravan Park tour bus with 8 grey nomad couples for an afternoon of discovery of Coober Pedy. We checked out the main town and a variety of underground dwellings from the road. ...