10th September 2023

Distance: 380 Km

This is Dry Country

Forgot that SA time is half an hour behind my watch so packed up early and arrived at Pimba before 9am. Katie and Geoff had arrived about 7pm last night so the entire family convoy was together. Andrew had a flat battery again so Geoff separated the older battery from the new one and we jump started his car.

Set off, Katie and Geoff  to explore Woomera the rest off us travelling north toward Cooper Pedy with a planned stop again at Glendambo for fuel – Dale’s car only travels about 260 km on a tank of fuel so he needs to top up at every opportunity.

We travelled through various types of desert vegetation and past many salt lakes glistening in the sun.

Made one further stop at Bon Bon Rest Area where we boiled a kettle for coffee, Milo and had a toilet break. I am very pleased with my Coleman Petrol Stove, once you have got the right technique for lighting it it is so much better than a butane stove especially in cold weather. I definitely need to buy a longer nozzle lighter for it, lighting it with an ordinary cigarette lighter is quite terrifying.

Continued on to the destination of Coober Pedy – made a compulsory stop at the town’s road sign near the turn off.

Then it was on to find the caravan park while Dale and Andrew bought fuel and looked around town. They decided to stay at the Big 4 Caravan Park because it has a swimming pool!

Katie and Geoff arrived a little while later an took over a site next to ours, they were small sites but very handy for the facilities.

That evening we all met up for a few drinks  in the Opal Inn bar where we spent a pleasant couple of hours before returning to the camp site for dinner.