Sea Seen

Coober Pedy has mullock heaps starting at least forty kilometres south of the town, which surprised me because every other opal mining town seems to have had a much smaller loade. The land is very flat, and suddenly you come across a bunch of heaps, then you go on a bit further and there are more, and so it goes.

Today was quite cool, thankfully! It was pleasant going through the flat treeless areas, and then suddenly getting arable land, then the hills around Willmington and Mount Remarkable. Finally on to Port Augusta and the long view of the gulf before turning inland to the parts of the trip I have never seen before. The Sturt Highway (like most of the rest of the trip today) was practically deserted and I couldn't believe it when there were two overtaking sections on the road, let alone the white paint across the road 100 km from anywhere that looked like a pedestrian crossing! The only time I was stuck behind a vehicle for more than a minute was when I was going through the long double line section near Willmington.

I saw a fox near the border, a few cattle, a few kangaroos (including a couple of reds), a flock of galahs, a lot of crows, but not much else. One of the towns near Willmington boasts of having a Giant Euchalypt - quite a broad River Red Gum! The salt lakes on the Sturt looked great - especially as they all had some water in them. 140km south of Coober Pedy the land started looking wet, with the soil looking very muddy and a bit marshy in places. And in one of the marshy places there were two wedge tailed Eagles. Then there was free standing water (in pools), and the creeks all looked like they might have a trickle flowing.