G'day gang. We can see the sea again. Should've known we'd never make Darwin before getting here by the 3rd November, a fact confirmed by info that between Coober Pedy and Adelaide, there's a farm which is the size of Belgium. Anyways, arrived in Adelaide a couple of days ago after a detour through the Barossa Valley wine district (see the Grapevine photo album for pix of Abi's new 4-legged fat friends.) As with the NZ vino tour, we tried to n...

There are certain things in life which don't fit. They kind of mess with your natural sense of logic. Like seeing a penguin in the Mastermind chair or me winning a Worlds Handsomest Man competition. Ladies and gentlemen, I introduce to you... Coober Pedy. This slice of other-worldly oddness all started back in 1915, when a wee scrap of a kid found a whopping chunk of precious opal while trying to find water in the parched desert. The word got out, Coober Ped...