Hi all So, Coober Pedy. The place where dreams and fortunes are made. The opal mining capital of the world. Place of underground Hobbit homes and the scene of a whole host of films and television series. Now Coober Pedy is in the middle of the desert proper. Red sand and outback for miles around. Rather predictably then, when we arrived it was bowing a gale. And as a result there was a major sand storm going on. Great. But on the plus side we stayed in an under...

Hi allSo we left Ceduna late, thanks to the stupid clocks going forward and headed into town to an Aboriginal Culture and Arts Centre. We spent a good hour and a half chatting to the (white) woman who runs the place and trying our hardest to like some of the work that the Aborigines had produced for sale here. We failed. But only just. We eventually decided against buying one piece in particular because we don’t like coons. Only joking. We just didn’t...

Hi allAs it turns out, South Australia was no different from Western Australia. Hardly surprising seeing as we were still traveling along the Eyre Highway across the Nullarbor. After getting our obligatory shot of the sign telling us we were at the border, but foregoing the opportunity to photographise a 10 foot fibreglass kangaroo called ‘Rooey II’ (despite the fact that this is one of the ‘highlights of South Australia’ - dear God, I won...