We basically covered 4,000 km of the Outback from Adelaide on the South coast to Townsville on the North East coast in 5 days. As predicted it was extremely hot, uncomfortably hot and even though we had allowed 10 days for the journey we squashed this into half the time. The first main “town” was Coober Pedy - an Opal mining town, where the extremes in weather are so great, that many people and businesses are underground. On arriving there the first thing we did was to purchase fly nets for our heads, as the flies were unbearable. They don’t just want to land on your food, they love getting into your eyes, up your nostrils and into your ears, and so even though you look really stupid, it was definitely worth it. Coober Pedy
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