Fun in Flinders

We had a great three days in the Flinders Ranges. The highlight for the kids was probably the campfire behind our van site. The park was in a beautiful setting, a valley surrounded by red rock ranges. We took the Volvo for some off-roading (pretty tame by some of the region's standards, but lots of fun).

The kids completed their longest bushwalk ever - 7.5kms in Wilpena Pound. M was our tour guide for 3 hours.

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Emu mum and some of her 8 chicks - what are Emu babies called again?

Elder Ranges

Tonight we're at Uluru. 4 nights with no travel, woo hoo! Looking forward to relaxing and a good look around. Camping opposite us is two busloads of teenagers from a college in Adelaide. Wish us a good night's sleep!

Fighting down panic at 100 ft under

Broken Hill: When we went to the visitors' centre and they told us that we would probably enjoy a mine tour, we were imagining a modern mine - down in a lift, good lighting, steel girders holding up those rock walls. Aaaahhh...no. We found ourselves 100 feet underground in a 100 year old mine, with tiny headlamps to light our way, an over-enthusiastic guide telling us all the different ways people died down there, bending over nearly double and trying not to think about the fact that there were some 100 year old gum logs and rusty nails holding up the rock. I could feel panic rising but realised there wasn't much to be done, so just held my breath and counted the minutes till we got the hell out of there. Chris was feeling the same way, I found out afterwards. The kids seemed to like it though.

Apart from the mine tour we really liked Broken Hill.

Tonight we're in Port Augusta, after a great three days in the Flinders Ranges. Off to Coober Pedy tomorrow then Uluru for M's birthday. Today was a long day, but that's other day's story...