Renmark to Coober Pedy

Hi all.  Well I apologise for my lack of blogging, having too much fun I guess, and not enough downtime.  We headed off from Renmark to Port August, it was a long and tedious drive, we hit a small town called Cadel (ironic, given all we wanted to know was how the Tour was going, and not been able to watch any of it to date). As we came through Cadel we hit a river that needed to be crossed by a Ferry, we decided neither of us was all that sure about the idea of putting a couple of tonne on that small raft and decided to head back 30km to go through Morgan instead.  Well apparently the river runs through there as well, so on we hop, I was just hoping the wheels stayed dry, the kids thought it was great.  We headed on and stopped at a beautiful little town called Burra, just as the kids were starting to go a little crazy in the back seat, after a quick bite of lunch and some feeding of the ducks we were back in the car to get to our destination.  Not too far into the trip Will had one of his famous meltdowns, and opened the car door whilst we were travelling at 100km per hour, my blood pressure was rising by the minute, every 1km seemed like an eternity.  We eventually made it to Port August in one piece, but I was not looking forward to another 530km in the car tomorrow to Coober Pedy. 

We got out of the park by 8am, as I have found the kids are much better in the morning, and we went through McDonalds to give them breakfast on the way.  We got to Coober Pedy by about 3pm with all of our nerves in tact and relatively happy kids - AMAZING, maybe they are finally getting the hang of this travelling business??

Coober Pedy is a typical mining town, its very dry and frankly fairly ugly, but our caravan park was great, it had a huge playground right in the middle, so the kids could play whilst we kicked back at the van and had a beverage in the sunshine and relaxed - now its starting to feel like we are on holidays.

We took the kids to a Kangaroo Orphanage - which was great, they got to feed the kangaroos, and pat a really tiny joey, he had only just grown some hair.  Then it was off to tour the underground mines and houses,  Charlotte loved this, she was so fascinated with how the opals were formed and was determined that she was going to just dig one up herself to keep :-)  To be honest I just wanted to get the hell out of there I kept thinking about what if something happened and we all got stuck under the ground, just gives me the shivers thinking about it, but fascinating all the same.