Leaving WA, crossing the Nullarbor, Eyre Peninsula and Crazy Coober Pedy

We left the coast in W.A and drove north to Norseman, the start of the famous Nullarbor; a 1200km road through barren landscpes between WA and SA. One part is 90 miles of totally straight road - exciting! Imagine what it must be like on a bicycle. We did it in 2 days and it was a huge relief to get to Ceduna and have a day off from driving. Once again we had to declare our fruit and veg and change our watches (forward by 2 1/2 hours). There are now 5 different times within Australia - crazy!!

After our rest we drove around the Eyre Peninsula, there wasn't much there but we had a look at the haystacks; pink limestone boulders:

We spent the night alone at the camp ground in coffin bay with only the wallabies and birds for company:

We then decided to drive 600km each way to Coober Pedy. This place looks like Mars and due to the high temperatures (it gets to 50C in the summer), half of the people live underground in their dugouts. Luckily for us summer seems to be late here and it as only 25C. 80% of the people come from overseas and they all do the same thing, dig for opals on their own little plots.

We decided to spend a night at the only underground campsite in the world. It was lovely and cool:

We went to visit Crocodile Harry's place. He died a few years ago but his house is still open for viewings. Totally crazy and very colourful!

We also went to a kangaroo orphanage and met the lovely chap who cares for them until they can release them back into the wild.

This is Ebony - only 6 weeks old.

These signs are all over CP:

We also went to visit a mine. This one was rediscovered when a couple needed an extra bedroom in their dugout:

They also found some old newspapers and one of they had this photo of an advert for cigarettes - nice!!!

On the drive back to 'civilisation' we took a walk along this huge salt lake.