Blogs from Oceania

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Today we’ll be continuing the long slog south through outback South Australia, this time 375 kilometres to the small outback town of Woomera. We know they like opal mining out here, but it seems that's not the only thing worth digging up in this vast empty landscape. We pass a sign to the perhaps slightly quirkily named Peculiar Knob Mine, which we read is the source of some of the highest grade iron ore in the entire country. I thought Wimmera was just a regular town, but it looks like it’s actually an Air Force base, which I guess could be a sort of a town. It’s all very military looking - identical style houses and two storey apartment blocks straight out of the 1950s. We’ve booked ourselves into the Eldo Hotel which sounded like a ... read more

Today we start the long journey home, all two and a half thousand odd kilometres of it. And the downside of living in such a vast empty land is that there aren’t a lot of route options other than the one we used to get here. So we’re going to need to come up with things to write about that don’t just repeat what we wrote on the way up … or resort to random observations. Let’s go with the random observations … so some readers might want to stop here. We've noticed that when we’re out here in the back of beyond on near deserted roads it seems to be customary to acknowledge drivers coming the other way. You’re apparently supposed to do this by very casually lifting your index finger slowly off the steering ... read more

I walk nervously into the breakfast room expecting the usual chaos. But no, it seems bus people have finally packed up and gone, and peace and tranquility has returned … and they didn’t even break the coffee machine, or burn the place down while they were trying to work out how to use the toaster... I’m keen for Issy to see at least part of the splendour of Kings Canyon, so we set off up the path onto the south rim. It hasn’t got any less spectacular overnight … and we see another animal, the second in two days, and this one’s even a native. OK it might only be a few centimetres long, a lizard sunning itself on a rock, but when you haven’t seen a single native animal in the wild since you arrived ... read more

Today’s plan is to hike around Kings Canyon. Issy’s opted for a rest day so it looks like I’m on my own. But first I need to survive breakfast. Elderly bus people are packed in here again, and chaos reigns supreme. As was the case last night I struggle to find anywhere to sit, and the queue for the eggs is almost out the door. I wouldn’t have thought it was that hard to operate one of those hotel type conveyor belt toasters, but these guys certainly seem to be struggling. There’s half a loaf worth of slices backed up in there and no one seems quite sure how to extract them. I hope someone figures it out before the whole place catches fire. Eighty-five something lady from Florida doesn't look overly happy about the long ... read more