G'Day Guys We had an interesting afternoon yesterday in Coober Pedy we had a tour of the town and visited a working Opal mine and an actual underground house cut out of the old mine!!!! We also visited an underground Serbian church, a lot of people here live underground because the temperature in the Summer can reach 55 degrees!!!!! The church was really nice and so decorative, yesterday was not so hot and a little windy but we went out of town to see part of ...

G'Day We are now in Coober Pedy in South Australia. This is our 5th State. It was a long boring run on the Greyhound that took 9 hours but the landscape is so barren and not much to see. Did not arrive till late last night and just ate and slept!!! Today we are on a tour to visit an Opal Mine an underground house and church plus other things including the dingo fence that runs 5300km through Australia. Coober Pedy roughly translates to 'White mans hole in the...

G'Day from Alice Springs We are now back from or trip out into the bush and want to tell you all about it so here is our last 4 days worth of news!!! Monday 1st October It was up at 5am so we could be collected by our guide for the next 3 days. From Alice Springs to Uluru is approximately a 450km 6 hour drive, hence the early start. An hour into the journey we made our first stop of the day at Stuarts Well Camel Farm. We both had a go riding a camel which was ...

G'Day Well here we are we have finally made it down to 'The Alice' as the locals say. It was a short 22 hour bus trip this time so nothing too heavy!!! On the way down we passed several bush fires, including a massive fire that was raging at the back of a petrol station. Needless to say our driver hot footed it out of there quickly. Mel had her nightly visit from the flying cockroaches she is like Dr Doolittle of the insect world!!!! It is hot here but no hu...

G'Day Today has been a much more successful day than yesterday's efforts. As usual it started early and we were speeding down Stuart Highway towards the Adelaide River for our date with the crocs that inhabit the river. It is estimated that about 3000 live in the river systems around Darwin and once on the boat we could see why. They were popping up out of the water all over and this was the one boat we did not want to sink!!!! The skipper assured us that if it...