Migrating South

The alarm clock was set for 5:45 and we were up before the sun.  With most of our camp already packed last night, it was just a matter of pulling the bung on the air bed and then squeezing the tent back into the bag it comes in. Packing the tent always reminds me of trying on last years jeans.

It was then the road and the road is pretty much
all we saw for the next 8 hours.

Below is a series of photos taken every 5 minutes while heading east from Yulara to Erldunda.

It was a fairly unadventurous drive, thankfully, with a stop for fuel at Erldunda and the lunch at Cadney Homestead.  Fuel (Diesel) at Erldunda was $2.079 /Ltr which is still less than the $2.209 at Yulara (Ayres Rock Resort).

Tonight we are at Coober Pedy once again and have checked into a Motel.

With a little time to spare Katie and I got a few supplies at the supermarket and if you are in Coober Pedy this is the place. The supermarket on Hutchison St is much smaller than what most are accustomed too, however, the range of items is far greater than any Woolworths we have ever been in.  I believe this may be due to the vast number of cultures that are in this town, for memory, I'm sure the tour guide at Faye's Underground house said there were around 80 different nationalities in this small town.

We also had a look in a few Opal shops and got a couple of small ornamental items for the good room at home.

From here we went for a short drive of the back streets and then went back to the Italian Club for dinner.

The Italian Social club did fill up, we were just first there.