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Another bus journey, another town! We arrived at Coober at around 7pm after a day on the bus from Alice Springs. We had the same Bus driver from the day before, he was called Lumpy and was a biker! A really interesting guy though and very entertaining!
We mananged to get the same bus we got before, the one the wheel nearly fell off, apparently it was fixed but they had to keep stopping to check all the same!!
The hotel we were staying in was lovely, we have pretty much taken everything that wasnt screwed down including slippers!! Im just waiting for them to charge me now hehe!
Coober is the weirdest place, its funny how people can make a town out of desert! They all seem to be greek so it makes for an interesting accent!
We did a tour of the town with Jimmy the Greek, he had been mining there for years. We vistsed an underground Church, Mine and home as well as visiting the breakaways which is where sea level used to be millions of years ago, its left a massive vallety with weird rocks! It was 39 Degress while we were there, i got an instant tan!
As we had visited the biggest Opal town we couldnt leave empty handed! It was tempting to buy the opal nose ring and body jewellery but we thought that may be over doing it hehe!
Coober is great because loads of films were made there too such as Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Pitch Black and Mad Max beyond Thunderdome! Jimmy had met Tina Turner and had some Beers with Vin Diesel! There were movie props just left in the town, suppose they cant exactly ruin the view since everyone lives underground!
Forgot to tell you, The Janitor turned up at Ayres rock!! We had a chat to him and his girlfriend and they seem to be heading the same direction as us which means we will see them everywhere from now on! Oh well Christmas and New Years with the Janitor, its like a real life version of Wheres Whally except the janitor wears a white wife beater and baseball cap!
Got an overnight bus to Adelaide tomorrow, back to Civilisation wohoo!!
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