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Andamooka Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Andamooka, Australia
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Mercredi 8 Novembre
Troisième jour... on a appris au petit matin pas mal de mots aborigènes en discutant avec Sharpy, qui s'est réveillé en même temps que nous à peu près... les nuits sont toujours un peu fraiches, et j'ai froid au petit matin dans mon swag, mais le ...
Travelling to Glendambo
Graham: Slept badly, seemed to wake every hour from about midnight until 5am. Mandi said that she also slept badly. We had our usual fruit salad for breakfast, picked up our lunches and headed for the mine. Mick arranged for us to pick up overalls and ...
Andamooka and the races
... a good dinner in the Oasis restaurant - we even had desert, so were only in bed after 11pm. Mandi: The second time I went to Andamooka was early on a Saturday morning - I'd dropped the men at the mine at eight, I think, and was in Andamooka by 8:30. ...
ANDAMOOKA; OPALS, DESERT & ISOLATION
... @ Roxby Downs WEATHER: 10 Degrees @ 8.30am; cloudy OVERNIGHT: Bon Bon Roadside Rest Stop- FREE It was 35 kms to Andamooka where the sealed road ends. The drive in passes through the huge Andamooka Station and there are still signs of the ...
Andamooka Opals
Today we visited a working opal mine, it was an experience getting there travelling through the other leases with deep opal pits on either side of the access track. We had an enjoyable few hours tracing the different old sea bed levels looking for the ...
Rockets and Opal Fields
... rockets, we then moved on to Roxby Downs a modern outback mining town servicing the Olympic Dam Uranium mine .We travelled on to Andamooka which has grown over time and is what we imagine Coober Pedy might have been like in the past. This town has ...
Oodnadatta Track to Lake Eyre
After the brief stop at Maree, we hit the dirt (and the dust) to Lake Eyre. There was a few travelers on the road and often saw them at the same photo places. Passed 'Plane Henge' and other funny sculptures. Lake Eyre was awesome. Haz and I had to ...
Lake Eyre to Coward Springs
More rough road brought us to beautiful Coward Springs. Found a great little spot, setup camp and then headed for a soak in the springs. Was amazing. Exactly what we all needed. Then was treated to a fantastic sunset. The sunrise was just as ...
Arkaroola To Somewhere On The Oodnadatta Track
... going on now, Marree was once a thriving railway town. In fact it is where the Ghan changed rail gauges between South Australia and Northern Territory. We had a quick look at the hotel and the old Marree railway station before heading north once agin, ...
Crossing over
... , one of the biggest parts of their land outside Northern Territory. Petrol is so expensive out here in the outback, cant wait to get to civilisation again! our last town in South Australia is called Bordertown - quite appropriate dont you ...
Outback: Farina to Coward Spring
We get up early, before sunrise (before 8 am when the flies wake up) and wander through the ruins of Farina. Three hundred people lived here in its heyday. The road to Marree is straight and dusty, but thanks to the salt, very good to drive on. Coffee ...
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