Friday, August 20, 2010

To Coober Pedy

We had a sensational day with wildflowers! Quite a few Sturts Desert Pea...they are amazing in colour and form...flowers  about 10cm long




Just a few of many!!

Another highlight was that Lake Hart was an absolutely enormous sheet of water due to all the rain - a tourist from UK thought they had reached the ocean!! It stretched about 4 times this distance!
C P itself is certainly not a highlight - the approach is all gibber plain, but it is interesting to see all the little and big mounds from the opal miners. Its cooling off now but it was 18 deg earlier....Tshirts! V few birds - quite a few cows  killed on the road...5 wedgies....the road was excellent and not a lot of traffic. The cars are pouring in now! 
Thinking of G & J and J,M & A in Melb! I'm v jealous but we'll see them after we are home.
LOLTYA

1 comment:

  1. Great pics of the wild flowers...no bird pics for me to identify! Ha Ha. I just emailed you a couple from Merimbula last week. I didnt know ypou were away..seems you are having a lovely time you couple of old grey nomads! Davo

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