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Hi Guys,
Well look at me, 2 blog updates in as many weeks, count yourselves lucky as I doubt it'll be this regular for the rest of the trip.
Since my last note we stayed in Adelaide for another week and had an awesome time. We went on a wine tour in the Barossa Valley and went wine tasting to 4 different winery including Jacob's Creek. We were told all these different tastes and smells you get from different wines etc, but in the end I could just taste grapes and felt very merry by the end of it. Then went to the pub to chase all the wine down with a good old beer.
We went to a few stand up comedy shows and circus shows at the fringe festival in the evenings which were really good. We also went to the Future Music Festival in Adelaide's Rundell Park. It had 4 music stages all playing different stuff inc. a gods kitchen stage. It was a really hot day and the music was awesome, among which were N.E.R.D. which aren't really my thing but were really good. Paul Oakenfold & Basement Jaxx were the last two acts on the main stage and they were fantastic, it was an awesome day.
The next day we woke really early to hit the road for a marathon 10 hour drive north up the Stuarts Highway to Coober Pedy. Coober Pedy is a weird little place in the middle of the Dessert. No grass, no bushes and no trees, just sand. People live there for the opal mining and all you can see is hundreds of thousands of piles of dirt that have been dug out the mines. 50% of the 3,000 people who live there live underground where its nice and cool. While we were there we got caught in a sand storm followed closely by heavy rain then hail the size of marbles. Apparently it happens now and again but last time was about two years ago. Luckily we were in the van at th time, but it was amazing to see, especially when it was in the distance rushing towards us!!!
After two nights there we left early again for a nother long drive, 9 hours, up to Uluru. Right in the centre of Australia. its not as deserty (if thats a word) than i thought it would be. There is lots of grass and trees growing from the red sandy ground, but I guess thats why they call it the bush.
We can see Uluru from our campsite on the resort but are not going to the rock until Nat's birthday, where we are going on a Sunrise Camel Tour and a outdoor sunset dinner next to the rock.
Tell you more later
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