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Up early and off to Lake Cadibarrawirracanna, the longest place name in Oz!! we all had a big singsong in the car on the way, Oasis, Don Mclean and robbie williams being hot favourites! talking of hot, it was above 50degrees (celcius!!) for most of the day today, so believe it mum! i sorta got used to it as its a gradual change, so not too unpleasant, just lots of water and shade! we stopped at the dingo fence, which runs from WA to QLD to keep the NT dingoes away from the SA cattle! runs for 9600km!!
Went to the opal mining town of Coober Pedy, where i went to my first automatic public loo! some people will understand, this is a big step in the battle against my toiletaphobia. it was rather nice and sang burt bacherac to me! we had a siesta in some cool underground dorms, i stupidly decided to rest my feet on the ceiling (i was on the top bunk) and scraped off loadsa rock into my eyes! ben had to help me with eye drops! doh!
Went on a tour round the old opal mines, we were over 10 metres underground at some points! i bought some opal earring, really lovely jewellery there! had a wander round the town, went to the bottle shop and filled up the esky with cans of jim beam and coke! mmmm! stopped for a quick drink and snack then moved onto the Painted desert, where we stopped to watch sunset. everyone was pretty tired from the heat so we set up camp, had dinner, and played a quick game of Swag Tag. its a simple concept really, everypne gets in their swags and plays tig! i was trying to reach over to tig fran and managed to completely capsize, and got a mouth full of desert! thats desert bryony not dessert.
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