06/01/07 contd..

Posted by Mochinbach |Posted in Australia, Outback| Posted on January 9th, 2007 | Trackback: URLComments Off

The evening in Coober Pedy was great. We went to a pizza place instead of having to cook and wash up and then to a local, underground pub. Some strange characters in there but that’s just part of the wonder of it all! You’d have to be a little bit crazy to live in the desert in 50 degree heat

During our walk back from the pub a huge storm started. It’s just weird. In the desert walking through torrential rain, lightning and thunder! They get 150ml of rain a year here and it evaporates ar 200ml a year! So it is rare and there we were in the middle of it all. Everyone went to bed except LOF, Double E, Davey and me. We stayed up to watch it We dodged the rain under the veranda until 11:30pm. A 5:30am start tomorrow :/

Off to Port Augusta now- another long drive – 6 hours. The we’re camping in a sheep station neat Wilpena pound – It’s a town with a population of 5! We’ll make it a city tonight.

Aussie have a fun sense of humour about these things though!