Had another good day. Up at 6:00 Vic time (tony has yet to change over to SA time) to leave at 8:00 AM. We camped at what looked like an ideal spot – Hehe – right near a railway line. The trains went by all night and judging by what we saw in daylight, had 80 plus trucks on them, I counted one at 88 not to mention the many road trains that went by. Huge noise. We called in at Woomera for coffee and fuel and were lucky enough to find an airforce guy at the weapons display area, the men were really pleased, he was a mine of information and comes up once a year to check on things. He was supposed to have come yesterday, so how lucky can one get?
Today we saw quite a few emus and some flowering Sturts desert pea – fabulous, Tony even allowed us to stop, look and photograph. We stopped at a very pleasant rest area and again the wildflowers were great.
Went into Coober Pedy for coffee, sigh didn’t get time to look at opals – maybe next time.
We are now camped about 100ks the other side of Coober Pedy, very stony, but off the road.
Today, the leaders alternated, Greg, Norbert, then Michael and me.
It’s winter and it’s 31 degrees we are all complaining about how hot it is. Rhoda, Michael and I are not holding your dad up – travel at the correct speed, ready to leave on time etc, I don’t think he will be disappointed in us.
We travelled 610 kms today – Tony tells us that tomorrow is a bigger day.
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