Alice to Coober Pedy

 

Road to Pine Gap Super secret spy base

 

Telstra's visually non intrusive site 

 

Hills

 

 

 

 

Signs

 

South Oz NT Border

 

 

The 1 and only Desert Pea we saw so far

 

Wild Flowers

 

A big Truck

 

 

Beginning of the Opal fields

 

 

 

We stayed here

Coober Pedy Tour

 

 

 

 

Means "White man burrow"

 

 

 

Half the shops in town all burnt down

 

Don't ignore these signs

 

Road north

 

End of bitumen

 

Golf course

 

1st tee

 

abandoned mine 

 

Set for Mad Max beyond Thunder Dome

 

Kangaroo holes

 

The Breakaways

 

Dog Fence 5000km long

 

 

Dog fence west

 

Dog fence east

 

Surface of Mars

 

 

 

 

 

Space ship prop from Pitch Black

 

Underground living room

 

 

Air shaft

 

 

When they dug a tunnel for the exit of the Museum mine they found Opal

about $40000.00 worth and they left this much as an example

 

 

 

 

Serbian Orthodox Church

 

All carved out of clay stone

They never found any Opal during construction