A Tall Blower

This Blower is at the entrance to Coober Pedy to welcome people coming up from the South. We saw it as we were leaving. It is a big vacuum cleaner that sucks the rubbish out of the mine and into the drum which empties them onto a mullock heap while blowing all the dust into the air.

Lake Hart and Lunar Eclipse

October 8th 2014
Yesterday was still a Southerly wind, although a bit lighter and a top of 240C expected. We decided to have a rest day and catch up with the housework, which we both did together. Barry then had a rest while I went into the sunshine and sorted the opal dirt Stella had given me yesterday. I found quite a few tiny chips of colour and a couple of larger stones with a small touch of colour ... read more

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more

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