Next morning we headed off back to the highway , heading south toward South Australia . There was nothing remarkable on the drive , and we found ourselves a camp site just north of the border . It was covered in these small white everlasting daisies .
We had the campsite to ourselves , which was nice , apart from the flies - there's been about a billion of them . Back out on the road , the kilometres rolled by with only a fuel stop . This is one of the most uninteresting sections of road we've driven . Our destination was Coober Pedy and we finally arrived at it's northern edges , mounds of different coloured dirt all over the place .
Glad we didn't wait around for them to fill the ute up , might have been waiting for a while . Seriously though , there are hundreds of these trucks , or ones similar scattered over the opal fields .
Next day we headed out to the Breakaways , it's a spectacular area about 30klms north of Coober Pedy . The colours are amazing , while at this viewpoint , a busload of tourists from The Ghan arrived , followed by another 2 bus loads from the Ghan . We got our photos and went across to another lookout .
So many different colours here .
The road took us down into the coloured valleys below to another lookout . This photo gives you an idea of scale
Stunning views .
This is Two Dogs - supposedly like 2 dogs lying down .
Multiple colours in this section .
The road then took us to the dog fence . It was built to keep dingoes out of the sheep grazing areas and went for a long way .
After the road left the dog fence we arrived at a spot called Mica Hill . The phot doesn't do it justice - all the small white areas are actually mica and were shining in the sun .
The area that Mica Hill is in , is called the Moon Plains , and for good reason - there's nothing for miles.
A thoroughly enjoyable day , tomorrow we'll check out more of town . Cheers
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