Lindsay - Our Outback Adventure was beginning to draw to a close, with our last proper outback night spent in the opal mining town of Coober Pedy. It’s a hell of a long way from Kings Canyon to Coober Pedy, which meant another ‘crack-of-dawn’ departure, sneaking out of the campsite with no lights and trying not to wake anyone up with our squealing van. We drove back to the Stuart Highway without event, watching the sunrise, passing the Simpson Desert to the east, and disturbing great flocks of galahs and cockatoos - which I suppose had roosted on the ground, and watching them rise together and swirl by the side of the road. At one point two kangaroos appeared and hopped across the highway just in front of us, much to Russell’s excitement. Well, firstly to
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