We got up early, check out time strictly 10am, so no sleep in today. We packed up camp and had our 20 cents for 3 min showers. Is nice to hit the road all clean.
We headed for the moouna opal mine and museum and had a look around. It has a very interesting display, both on the local area and also a display from the SA Museum on fossils. We were able to take photos of the displays about the local area but not the ones about the fossils, the way the displays were set up you couldnt take photos which is a shame so I will just have to try and remember what the displays said for Renas book.
We headed for the petrol station and put some fuel in the cruiser before doing a cooks tour of the town. I may be a bit bias, but I think Lightning Ridge has it all over Coober Pedy. I know that they are both very different towns, but everything was either boarded up or under lock and key. Even at the van park you were locked in from 10pm until 6.30am. I wouldnt feel safe walking around this town after dark, where as the ridge I do.
The landscape heading out of town, is as they say like a luna landscape in some places. You could tell where there was good opal as there was big open cut mines and big machinery being used.
We then headed north to see how far we could get today as it is a big drive between here and Alice Springs. We got as far as the SA/NT Boarder Rest Area.
This is quite a nice little spot to stay, very informative signs, well laid out rest area with a drop toilet. We got here just in time to take up one of the last spots at the back. We set up camp and got to enjoy some rays of sun before I had to cook dinner. You have to get here early to get a good spot. The ones set up opposite us had got here at 11 am. They wanted to make sure they got a good spot.
It was a very nice atmosphere at this camp spot, we headed inside relatively early so that Rena could go to sleep, but we went to sleep to the sound of fellow campers around campfires talking and laughing and reminiscing about their travels.
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