21st July 2009 Packed up, filled up the car and got some groceries before hitting the road. Drove about 1/2 hour north of Coober Pedy to The Breakaways then decided to drive to Arkaringa Station to see the Painted Desert. This meant going via the dirt road! After 1000km's of dirt and corrugations Matt was looking forward to driving on bitumen today. Oh well, he'll have to wait another day or two! We drove via the Moon Plain which is just stones and dirt and no ...

19th July 2009 Easy packing up camp this morning then queued for fuel before hitting the road to Coober Pedy - more rough dirt road. Got to Coober Pedy at lunch time so set up camp and made lunch before going for a drive around town and up to the Big Winch. Coober Pedy is a very different place! It's an opal mining town built in a very barren landscapre. It gets very hot in the summer so half the towns folk live undergroun in houses called "dugouts". T...

17th July 2009 Matt not feeling too good today! We said a quick goodbye to Peta and Helen then slowly packed up camp and hit the road at about 11.30am. Drove back in to Marree for supplies and bumped in to Helen and Peta again. Decided to have lunch at the Marree store where we had the most awesome hamburgers! Finally after lunch we hit the road to Coward Springs. A few hours travel up the corrugated Oodnadatta Track lead us to the Coward Springs Campsite just...

Tuesday, 14th July 2009 Another great night's sleep! After a quick chat to Bill and Marion (our neighbours from Rawnsley Park station who arrived at Arkaroola last night) we finished packing and hit the road.The sky was very grey and looked like rain (again) so we wanted to out of there ASAP!After a quick stop in Leigh Creek for some groceries and lunch we continued north with a brief stop at the Farina ruins - and nearly got blown away!It was so windy.We thoug...

Sunday, 12th July 2009 Fantastic sleep last night!Yay!So we bounded out of bed and packed up camp and drove in to Wilpena Pound where we did a 3hr hike up to Wangara lookout for views over the pound.Nice hike, lovely weather and nice views. Then it was a carpark lunch before hitting the road to Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary in the Northern Flinders Ranges, another geologically significant area.Our first dirt road!180km's of dust and corrugations!Although it wa...