We only drove 402 kms today but that’s because we did a little exploring. 

Started off at the desalination plant at Coober Pedy which was supposed to be teeming with bird life – but we only saw a couple of crows.

Then we headed to the Coober Pedy Golf Course – yes there are crazy golfers everywhere. Not much grows out at Coober Pedy (annual rainfall of 140mm) so no hope of lush green fairways and tees and greens.  They have a piece of green fake grass as the tee, the green is a circle of black dirt (that you have to rake) and the fairway is graded rock. 

After the golf course we said goodbye to Coober Pedy and headed off to the Breakaways and Dingo Fence.  The landscape is unreal – gibber plains with not much growing – aptly called the Moon Plain it has been the site of many movies (Pitch Black and one of the Mad Max ones plus many others). The breakaways are amazing anytime of the day but for best colours and photographs you want to be there for the sunrise and sunset.

After that it was time for serious km’s as we want to spend a few days at Uluṟu before joining our tour. We had preselected a rest stop that we wanted to get too but heard there was one with toilets and water just 30kms down the road (everything is just another 30 kms) so decided to push on to there.  As we pulled up in a camping spot, another car pulled in right behind us, at an angle, like they wanted to squeeze between us and the fenced off area. Turns out they wanted to check out our camper as they saw it was a Jackson’s Carry Me Camper.

Finally got to photograph some flowers – looks like a form of grevillia - and also the burrow of some little creature that has dragged leaves from a nearby plant and made a perfect circle around their burrow openings.