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Coober Pedy and South Australia

by calvin28

What can I say about the last leg of my trip. After I finished the tour of the center of Australia, I did a two-day "tour" from Alice Springs to Adelaide. And by "tour" I mean that a truly frightening man named Simon drove me and 7 other people around in a very crowded truck for very literally almost 20 hours. Let the fun begin. Actually, as weird as this last leg of my trip was, it actually produced a number of great stories. So read on!

So Simon's truck was this big thing that held six people in the back,...

Along the way we stopped at the border between the Northern Territory...

Also at the border was the actual border line. This prompted a lot of...

I'm not sure if my camera was under the influence of Satan or...

The farther south we drove, the flatter the land got. Just a few...

...and here there's almost none at all. Another funny Simon story:...

What's that? Why, it's opal mines! That means we're...

And opal mines mean opal accidents. Best. Sign. Ever.

Let me just explain that I heard about Coober Pedy a while ago, and...

It's a koala reading in bed. Do I have to explain everything?

That in the background is a typical Coober Pedy neighborhood. All the...

This is our room for the night. Underground. Very swanky.

It was a pretty big room. There were about 50 beds in all, I think....

The main strip of Coober Pedy. Some have compared it to Las Vegas. See the...

And the other side. I gotta say, I had heard a lot about Coober Pedy,...

We left early that morning, but before we did I got a cool shot of the...

More clouds. Clouds and trees and sunsets. I guess I am a one trick...

And roads. I like pictures of roads. Lots of roads meant lots of time...

I finally achieved my goal of taking a picture of one of the fantastic signs...

Flat: The Musical!

While we were driving 2 different storms on either side of us started...

Somewhat hard to tell, but this is another pink lake. There's all over...

And the flight home. This is somewhere over South Australia, which had...

article published 1/31/2006

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