A couple of fairly quiet days with nothing much to report. Spent last night at Coober Pedey in an underground motel which was something very different. Really quiet and very dark. So dark infact that we left a light on. The landscapt around Coober Pedy is like a moonscape piles of rock and lots of holes. Spent way too much money on opals but hey its made round to go round and the opals are just so beautiful.

Travelled to Woomera today through probably the most boring yet at the same time the most interesting landscape I have ridden through. I thought the Hay Plains were flat but they have nothing on the roads around Woomera. The interesting thing was to suddenly see huge lakes in the middle of the desert. Definitely a must do ride.

I was disappointed to get to Woomera too late to visit the museum. The main reason for stopping here was to have a look at the place where my father worked on and off during the time we lived in South Australia in the early 1960s. I can now understand why he didn't like coming here, particularly as he was newly arrived from England when he came here. It is certainly a very different place.

Off to Adelaide tomorrow. Not sure how we will deal with a city after so much time in the bush.