Blogs from Coober Pedy, Outback, South Australia, Australia, Oceania

Someone once said “be careful what you wish for”…if only I had taken heed!!! Having complained incessantly for the last few months about having to wear thermals, jumpers and wet weather gear (“why oh why didn’t we go north” was mentioned more than a few times!) we are now cowering in the shade of a gum tree at Hancocks lookout near the Flinders Ranges trying to see the funny side of the Australian climate! After leaving Adelaide our plan was to travel northwards to the Flinders Ranges National Park, across the Oodnadatta track and to visit Coober Pedy while the temperatures were still cool enough to do it comfortably and to be back in Adelaide well before summer hit on the 1st Dec. Unbeknown to us, nature obviously had other ideas of when summer was to ... read more

Leaving Adelaide the real road trip begins......................................................... Today I saw soooo many more interesting things- we were in the real outback!! For starters the weather was amazing- desert like......its amzing how the weather can be so different...................... Experienced real Australian colours- burnt oranges............desert land with sparce greenery- great photo opportunities which of course I took full advantage of as always! People's houses were in the absolute middle of no where!!!! Miles apart from their neighbours!!! How do they get food or milk for their brews- they must not see others for days or leave the house for days!!!!!!! I just find it crazy!!! I would pull my hair out!!! Poor Sylvia would be well used!!!!!! The roads were same same the whole way with little highlights thrown in there every now and again!!! A ... read more

Hi, hope you get this Emma and KB. 3rd time lucky for trying to get this blog thing happening. IIIIf it works I hope to be able to stay in touch while on my work trip to Canada and the states. Don't lose the site, and log in for updates. Fingers crossed!!... read more

From Adelade we headed North. Yay warmer! We started by stopping for a 10am wine tasting. The wine was really good too... So all buzzed up on Sav Blanc and a Rose Dessert wine we headed north through the Flinders Ranges. Lunch was a tasty Kangaroo Pie, which might be my favourate red meat. Who needs cows when you can have roos. From there we went to Alligator gorge... hiked through the river and gorge. We spent the night in the bustling metroplis of Quorin. In all seroiusness it is almost a real town. It had a decent pub. you've gotta love the Aussies, they build the worlds longest fence as a deterent to keep the dingos away from the sheep and cattle. now any dingo that wanted too could get through this fence, but it ... read more