7 June 2008 – Coober Pedy

Grey Nomad — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 08:17:36 +0000

The alarm was set for 7.00am as a day of rest and relaxation was planned. We awoke to overcast skies with rain threatening,

After breakfast, we packed up the motorhome and headed off to visit the local sites. First stop was the noodling area where we secured an amount of discarded mine material to bring home so our son and grandson can experience the thrill of searching for opal. The motorhome was then refuelled (still far from happy with the fuel consumption) and we then paid a visit to “Fay’s” home to catch up with the owners who we met last year.

We then drove around Coober Pedy looking at a lot of the local attractions (you can count them on one hand). This included the golf course and some deserted mines where we stopped for photographs. We stopped at the local airport before heading back into Coober Pedy for coffee and a snack, visits to a couple of shops and a refill of one of the gas bottles.

We had intended to “eat out” for our evening meal but decided to make lunch the main meal due to the weather and the fact that we would have been walking to the restaurant in the evening. After lunch we headed back to the caravan park for a quiet afternoon.

We will have a light meal tonight and probably head to bed early as we have a long drive tomorrow. Whilst it is not raining, the sky is becoming very threatening and serious rain is not far away.

11 June 2007 – Coober Pedy

Grey Nomad — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:00:22 +0000

We went on a tour of Coober Pedy and our guide host was Rudy, a 72 year old ex miner who has lived in Coober Pedy for the past 36 years. Our tour included visits to an underground church, the Coober Pedy Golf Club (the rules are not to walk on the grass – there is NO grass), an underground mine and residence and a noodling area.

After the tour we did our own local tour revisiting the noodling area (without luck) and visiting a local residence that is like an open house. The residence, known as Faye’s Underground Home is managed by Colin & June Maclean. Colin knows our home suburb very well as his brother lives two streets away from us. We took some pictures and agreed to pass them on to Colin’s brother. Colin also gave us a piece of local rock (called rainbow rock) that we can sand into shape.

We were actually grounded to some degree today as we ran out of cash and were unable to find a CBA ATM machine to allow access to the credit union account. A long weekend did not help and we had to transfer funds to our CBA account that is accessible from Westpac ATM’s.

We had dinner out at a local Pizza restaurant (charged it).

Travelling in a motorhome called "Blue Snoopy" » Coober Pedy

7 June 2008 – Coober Pedy

11 June 2007 – Coober Pedy