After half a day in Coober Pedy I drove further south again. I made it to Port Augusta, before I stoped for the night. At the next day, July 5th I decided spontaneously to make a side trip to Kangaroo Island on my way back to Melbourne. So I drove down to Cape Jervis and jumped on the ferry to Penneshaw. I was lucky and I got the ferry at 6 in the afternoon, although I was booked in the ferry at 8:30. But there was still a free space on the earlier ferry. The ne...

After I compleated the Glies Track in the Watarrka National Park, and had a nice evening back in the Kings Canyon resort, I drove back south to Coober Pedy on July 3rd. I arrived there when it was already dark, but this time I decided to drive into the city to have a look for some underground motel or something like that. This first obvious thing I saw was a underground hotel. I stoped and walked in. There was a man at the reception but he said he cannot help me,...

After I camped ahead Adelaide, I entered the city today. At first I drove to the youth hostel and booked a bed for the night, then I had a look around the city. Quite a lovely city, and quite green. Because of the cold of the winter I decided not to go to the beaches but have a walk through the botanical gardens. And through the city center. In the evening I walked to a pub for having some food and one or two beer. What I didn't know was that there was a rugby ga...

The Old Mount Gambier Goal is an old prison that is renovated and used as a hostel today. It was in business till 1995. Some of the cells are as they where during the time as prison. But we had a modern cell which was quite comfortable. But it was the first night in prison for me.