Day 2 - Coober Pedy

On August 7^th we have covered 550 km. From the very start at 125km south of Pimba we noticed lack of fuel and last 70km the arrow was below 0 – really hoping that below zero will be enough at least for a hundred. Oversized truck taking both lanes ahead of us was really on time J Last 20km at a speed of 50kmh with annoying truck… We’ve managed… J

Pimba had nothing except petrol station, so we moved on to Glendambo – an exciting local town with 22,500 cows, 2 million flies and 31 humans! Having had a nice bite and having watched the road train with explosives we continued towards Coober Pedy – the opal capital of the world.

This has been the longest non-stop drive for today (252km) rewarded by opal catacombs, four drunken aboriginals, interesting story about opal mining from local jewelry store owner and amazing sunset in the Breakaways.

Tomorrow we’ll see these rocks in the sunrise as well. In the meantime, camping next to an aussie couple in 50s from Newcastle, who are traveling around Australia for 6 months.