Comfort Inn at Coober Pedy

Day 4 Ross River to Coober Pedy

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May 8th 2011
Day 4 7am start again. Said goodbye to the Alice folk and headed to Emily Gap along the Ross Highway. We stopped there for a little breakfast. A long drive today and extremely tiring. I was only doing between 80-95km per hour. I felt rejuvenated when I hit the SA border. Fuelled up at Marla and bumped into a family having a sea change to Kunnunarra. The wife is going to be a trauma nurse there. W ... 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