The rock was closed today due to high winds at the top, so we decided to take the 50 km drive out to the Olgas (now known as Kata Tjuta), another rock formation in the same National Park as Uluru. We took the 3 hr ‘Valley of the Winds’ walk which channelled us through the […]

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It was a long drive from Marla to Yulara, the resort town that services Uluru (Ayer’s Rock). We arrived with enough time to drive out to the big red rock and watch its changing colours as the sun drops down beyond the horizon. We sat and enjoyed a glass of wine and a picnic dinner […]

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We packed up camp again, and aimed to visit some more places before heading off. Unfortunately we were too early for the pottery place and a gallery, but did pass the dusty grassless golf course on the way. Luckily the beautiful underground church was open, and didn’t Olive love running around in this open space, […]

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Exploring Coober Pedy started with a tour of the ‘Old Timers Mine’, a look through an old mine which included a fascinating view of an underground home. We went ‘noodling’, which is the description for fossicking by hand for opals in piles of rocks. We found plenty of the worthless stuff - but apparantly the […]

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We left Woomera early getting back onto the Stuart Highway to continue our journey north. There is not much to see from here to our next destination, the old opal mining town of Coober Pedy, just miles and miles of flat desolate eagle eating roadkill landscape. We shared the 400km drive, with a lunch of […]

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From the Flinders Ranges we drove south initially through the lovely historical town of Quorn, then across to Port Augusta and then the start of our drive up the middle along the Stuart Highway. It was a taste of things to come - a long straight road through flat dry desolate country. When enough was […]

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On this sentational sunny day we hiked to the top of the mountain ridge to see the spectacular view on offer into the basin of the Wilpena Pound from the top of Mt Ohlsen Bagge. The pound is a large ring of mountains  encasing a flat area, looking almost like a volcano top. We shared the […]

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