Straight down the black stuff to Coober Pedy. I had to do the kitsch thing and take a photo at the sign. Note the opal mine dirt heaps in the far background.

Until we were here I didn't realise Coober Pedy had its own Hollywood style sign.

The aliens really have landed.

Having a bit of fun on our self-paced opal mine tour.

A display underground house at the Old Timers Mine.

A lot of people still live in underground houses. This house extends a long way into the hill side.

The underground Serbian Orthodox Church.

Kingoonya is another one of those defunct railway towns this time on the transcontinental line from Adelaide to Perth.

The trains to Darwin and the trains to Perth both run through Kingoonya but neither need any support from the town.

What a magnificent showing of Sturt's Desert Peas.

We took a shortcut to Streaky Bay down a gravel road. On the map the road travels between two salt lakes we hoped to catch glimpses of the lakes as we drove past. While we didn't see much of these we did see other unnamed ones further south.

This rock wall goes across a dry gully so I can only surmised that it is a failed dam.

Emus among the saltbush. As well as emus we saw a lot of sheep grazing on the saltbush.

What is the collective noun for emus? flock?

After running down the road in front of us this mob thought it was time for a drink.

After this the road became quite wet and slippery. Clifford is not so clean now.