On the road to Coober Pedy we stopped at a lay-by which had a magnificent view of Lake Hart with mountains in the back ground, it was water as far as the eye could see...wonder if it is like that all year round or dries up in the summer!! pulled up for break at Glendambo met a girl there who has also stopped for a break found out she was a nurse working her way around the country...had come from Mildura heading for Darwin...she is from Trafalgar (small world) Arrived Coober Pedy (it is an Opal Town) 3pm and while there we visited 'Faye"s underground house where we were given a guided tour of it. Fay is in her eighties and arrived in this town when she was in her 20s in 1940's It took her and her friend 10yrs to finish the underground house and she also added an indoor pool and had the water for it transported from Adelaide!!! It cost us 20cents for 4mins of water for our shower at the caravan park and if we wanted water to fill our tanks we had to pay for it! so it lets you realise how scarce water is here. Toured a Serbian Underground Church the workmanship was incredable had to be seen to be believed.
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| Serbian Underground Church |
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| Stained Glass Window |
Day 8 Coober Pedy to Kulgara
Arrived at Kulgara at 5pm stopping at Marla for Fuel...it was a long haul. Caravan Park is behind the Roadhouse ver-r-r-y basic but we did get a powered site for $20...
Hi Jim here, as the saying goes you only get what you pay for, in this case not much.
I went for a shower at night and the water was freezing, so decided to have one in the morning.
Got there at 6.30 with 2 cubicles empty selected one got ready, turned the hot tap and thought good hot water then the tap fell off so tried to turn on the cold to no avail, I was then unable to turn the tap in any direction. so decided to take the next cubicle.
Shortly after all that all I could hear was a selection of four letter words, then I heard the tap handle fall to the floor, then the guy in the broken shower let fly with another flood of four letters words was heard all over the ammenities. could not help laughing, will never recommend to my worst enemy, but it was a bit of a laugh.
This is the Kulgara Roadhouse
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| Not Boot Hill but Boot Tree |
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