Eyre Peninsula to Murray River

A friendly little bird...is it a finch?

Shingle-backs are everwhere on Eyre Peninsula.
Trouble is; they cross the roads soooo slowly,
...and don't always make it....

Elliston scenic drive

Eastern side of Elliston

Coffin Bay National Park

Oyster cages, Coffin Bay

All set for a swim with the tuna.

Manning the houseboat

Our home for a week.

An idyllic location for a spot of fishing...

Moored for the night and " chilled out "

Early morning calm.

Sam enjoyed his birthday treasure hunt.
We hid his presents all over the boat with clues leading from one to the next.

 Stunning isn't it...

Cockatoos nest in the holes in the cliffs.

Coober Pedy to Eyre Peninsula

Once a working mine with a resident family. 

The girls' bedroom. They would be around  45 now.

Now it's a tourist attraction called Old Timer's Mine.

The family lived here and worked the mine until the 70's...

This is exactly how they left it....

The father ran the first underground post office

A seam of opal

Kangaroo orphanage, Coober Pedy. ( They kiss when you blow on their face )

Lake Hart - salt pan

Wilpena Pound in the distance

a model of Wilpena Pound showing the circle of mountains

Old man emu and his chicks

Flinders Ranges

Flinders Ranges

Flinders Ranges

The entry to Wadlata Outback Centre, Port Augusta

Fields of gold; wheat grows all over Eyre Peninsula 

Mick " surfing " Murphy's Haystacks, An unusual rock formation.

The other side of Venus Bay, Eyre Peninsula

Photos of Mintabie & Coober Pedy

Crossed the border  into S.A. on 25th October 2011

Test drilling for opal at Mintabie.They go down 30 feet.

Hot and dusty work in an arid landscape. Mintabie.

A disused opal mine. Mintabie.

Hoo Hoo disturbed my sleep??

A tormented land , gouged to pieces in the hunt for beauty. Outside Coober Pedy. 

Underground Serbian Orthodox Church.

There really IS light at the end of the tunnel...

Amazing scalloped roof carved out of the rock.

Underground bar at The Desert Cave Hotel. Coober Pedy.

Traditional entry to the opal mine.

Opal mine- Coober Pedy.

Underground Catholic Church. Coober Pedy.