Dagur 11 - Kings Canyon 2 Coober Pedy

Vid voknudum snemma og forum af stad um half atta. Vid keyrdum aleidis til Stuart Highway. A ledinni stoppudum vid og skodudum Henbury meteor gigana. Thadan komumst vid a Stuart Highway og sidan var bara brunad nidur i att ad Coober Pedy. Thad er nanast engin byggd vid thenna highway og mikid um ad dyr seu drepin thegar thau alpast fyrir bilana. Thad thydir ad a reglulegu bili eru dyra hrae vid vegin. Thar voru oftast ernir og adrir fuglar ad naera sig. Vid stoppudum einnig a landamaeru SA og NT. Thar er huggulegir bekkir og thesshattar. Eg var alveg eydilagdur ad vid vaerum ad fara fra NT og reyndi ad klifra yfir aftur en komst ekki neitt. Vid komum svo til Coober Pedy um sjo leytid. Her erum vid i hoteli sem er allt nedanjardar i gamalli opal namu. Vid forum ut ad borda a Griskan veitingastad. Herna komst eg i netid til ad uppfaera thessa sidu. A morgun verdur haldi afram og ekki keyrt nema i rumlega 500km til Port Augusta.

(English) We woke up early to get a good start on the long drive today to Coober Pedy. We left KC before nine. We then took the Ernest Giles gravel road shortcut that goes via the Henbury metorite craters to the Stuart Highway. The craters are quite interesting to look at, small enough to get a good overview, but big enough to fire the imagination as to the massive explosion that took place 4,000 years ago when the fragments collided with earth. Once on the Stuart Highway it was a straight through drive to CP. On the way we noticed the usuall carcasses after the overnight road kills. The ravens where joined by Eagles in the food parties. On occasions we saw more than one of them having a nibble. We also saw a couple of Eagles flattened out after having become a road kill themselvs. On the border of NT and SA we had our lunch break. I was pretty disapointed this is all coming to an end, so I tried to go back to NT, but was talked out of it!. We arrived in CP around 7pm. We are staying in an underground motel that is using an old opal mine for all it's rooms. Quite interesting I must say. We haven't found any Opals in our rooms yet though! We just got back from a Greek restaurant and me and Chris hit the Internet to catch up on emails and me updating this blog. Then it's off to sleep and another long drive to Port Augusta.