Coober Pedy is terribly desolate and harsh, but its interesting to see all the mullock heaps - they go for about 30 km !! Each heap is from a mine shaft, looking for opals. No vegetation for many km either side of CP but further north the habitat changed and we started to see more wildflowers.More wedgies and dead cattle along the road; also saw the first black kite for the trip.
Eremophilas were the highlight - red, yellow and mauve.
The Cassias were abundant all along the road in some areas, as were wattles of several different types.
Where we stopped to have our lunch - wraps as usual!- there was a dry creek bed with some beautiful old river red gums.
At Erldunda there were emus feeding near the camp, eating 'paddy' melons.
We went for a walk and saw pink paper daisies and a few other little wildflowers as well as big bushes like a thryptomene.
Beside our camp we saw this pair of parrots. Do you know what they are? ( for Davo!)
Salmon pasta for dinner tonight--don't fancy the ever present terrible looking chips or hamburgers, at the roadhouse!!
LOLTYA
Gotta be Mulga Parrots eh? I like this game!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the reply on the Dotterils...enjoying that travel diary...keep up the good work.
Next thing we know you will start tweeting!!!!
Davo
Forgot to ask...do you know why the lakes are pink? As a follow up, were you abhle to collect any of the salt? davo
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