Pt Agusta - Whyalla to CooBer Pedy

Campbell – we were sleeping under the ground. It was an old opal mine. We went on a mine tour. Did you now only 93% of opal is good opal the rest is unformed opal worth nothing.

Lachlan- we slept under ground in a tunnel. We could not tell the time! The night before we went on a tunnel tour and learnt how to dig opals and we also learnt who to tell which opal is which. We are going to get as close to ulur as we can.

Pippa-We went to Whyalla and saw the bay from the look out. We played at the playground. We went on the beach and got shells. At Coober Pedy we went on a mine tour.

Rhys – traveled from Pt Augusta to Whyalla, back to Pt Augusta then to Woomera then to Coober Pedy. The kids were impressed to sleep underground in CP. It’s a very long way between drinks. I liked the rockets at Woomera, its great that Australia was the forth county in the world to put a satellite into orbit, but, it’s a pity we are not as involved in that sort of work these days. All the locals were exited that we brought a few showers of rain with us!

Kathy – we stayed at Port Augusta a couple of nights and fully set up the annexe which was very civilized! We went to Whyalla for the day so Rhys could visit clients. For a mining and steel town it was actually very pretty. The sea water was azure blue and the bay area was surrounded by lovely hills that made it look like a picture on a tropical island brochure. We are now in Coober Pedy which is much better than I remembered from my Year 10 outback trip. We stayed in an underground room at a mine/caravan park and did a mine tour at night which was very interesting. Although Campbell stole the show by sharing with the group about his star role in the Honda motorbike advert!