Across the border into South Australia early on Friday (30/12) stopping off at Mt. Gambier where a crater hosts the bluest lake you've ever seen, and the Umpherston sink hole is home to beautiful gardens. Reaching 50 degrees in the camper on the way to our next stop, the cool of Naracoorte Caves was a much needed break from the scorching heat outside. The caves were home to a number of fossils from thousands of years ago which fascinated me, but bored tom to death!! Onto adelaide next, via kingston, home of the Big Lobster, and The Coorong National Park whose huge dried out salt esturies stunk of dead Kangeroos!! Having passed throught the Adelaide hills we rocked up at our big 4 campsite in time for a dip in the pool! The temperature didnt drop below 33 degrees all night!! We spent New Years Eve morning printing off photos and visiting the National gallery of SA. In the afternoon we headed to the popular Glenelg beach only to be very dissapointed at the dirtiest water either of us had seen in Australia!! The adelaide Oval was the last stop of the day before heading back to the campsite and spending a couple of hours in the pool. We fed the ducks, before heading to Victoria square in the centre of Adelaide to see the new year in. Far from Fatboy slim on Bondi Beach (which we had tickets to see before we decided to leave sydney), we watched a Beatles tribute band, who, give them credit, put on a bloody good show!! The fireworks were fab, when they finally took off, although a number of people including myself got an eyeful of firework debree!! Sunday 1st January, a new year bringing new weather..... It poured down!! We travelled the 300km to Port Augusta passing a dead dog and headed into the outback towards coober pedy passing a dead cow and a sheep!! We saw a number of large wedge-tailed eagles feeding on rotting kangeroo carcusses and passed a number of large salt pans marking where the sea used to be, stretching for 100's of kms. The 550km from Port Augusta to Coober Pedy took us a good few hours but getting the road trains to honk at us kept us amused for a while. We reached Coober Pedy just before sunset, and in time to beat the huge electrical storm which conveniently cut out all power whilst tom and i were stood in the showers!! We had to run back to the camper in our undies in the some of the heaviest rain we've come across! Monday (02/01) saw us, or rather me, noodling for opals in Coober Pedy following a trip to the popular opal museum....unhopefull tom chose to sit in the car and read a three day old newspaper!! I found opals, ok, they were worthless potch, but they were prettyenough! We past several mining ruins on our way back down to Port Augusta and continued our game of 'get road trains to honk at us' after eye-spy became very boring when all we could see with our little eye was road, bush and sky!! We headed up to the Flinders ranges and spent the night in Hawker. From Hawker (3/01), we went to Wilpena, further north in the flinders ranges, the furthest we could go without a 4WD. From the visitors centre, we took a 2 hour walk into the Wilpena Pound, a huge natural amphitheatre that looks rather like a crater and covers around 400sq km until we reached the Hills Homestead, where the family which once farmed within in Pound lived. Drought and storms put an end to that and it's now host to a large amount of forest. Back down to Port August and onto Port Lincoln on the south-eastern edge of the Eyre Peninsula. It was a long way! Wednesday (4/01) was a boring day, driving for most of the time until we reached the tiny village of Penong.... The only interesting thing along the way was an unusual outcrop of rocks know locally as 'Murphy's Haystacks'. We stayed in Penong and got to catch up with the latest in Neighbours, and the Cricket! Another long day of driving on Tuesday (5/01), possibly the longest day yet!! We drove from Penong, across the Nullabor Plains National Park and along the Great Australian Bight until we reached the SA/WA Border Village......