-- From Ayers Rock to Barmera
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The road tracklog
From Ayers Rock to Peterborough
From 16/08/2010 to 19/08/2010
Monday August 16 was the first of three long driving day towards the south to leave the outback.
Mt Conner
En route
16/08/2010
Stuart hwy
En route
16/08/2010
In the early morning I attended an exceptional sunrise on Stuart Hwy. I stopped at the end of the morning in Coober Pedy, world capital of the opal providing nearly 90% of the market. Around the landscape is sown mole traps created by the machines to sort opal stones from the gangue. Before the advent of air-conditioning dwellings were dug out the ground because in summer the temperature exceeds the 50°C. Churches are also underground. At the entry of the city, approximately 3000 inhabitants, a machine is as statue, to see Gallery-4.
Sunrise
Stuart Hwy
17/08/2010
Mine field
Coober Pedy
17/08/2010
Landscape
Coober Pedy
17/08/2010
Catacomb Church
Coober Pedy
17/08/2010
Last driving day in the outback, I had lunch at the edge of the lake Hart. By arriving at the bivouac 80km away before Port Augusta a downpour fell brutally.
Lake Hart
Stuart Hwy
18/08/2010
Danger !
Stuart Hwy
18/08/2010
On Thursday August 19 I stopped in Port Augusta to go shopping both for the truck its driver. Then I bivouacked in Peterborough.
Peterborough
19/08/2010
The road tracklog
From Bookaloo to Barmera
From 19/08/2010 to 22/08/2010
The next day in the early morning I noted that the roof of my truck was covered with white frost, altitude was of approximately 500m. In an unpleasant drizzle I drove in a very green landscape up to Burra then after having crossed mountains of average altitude the landscape became arid up to Morgan. Strange country where into a few kilometres the landscape changes completely.
En route vers Burra
20/08/2010
En route vers Morgan
20/08/2010
After Morgan the culture of the vine, citrus fruits and fruit trees made their appearance, the climate is famous Mediterranean. The LP and the booklets presented the villages at the edge of Murray River as very tourist, alas the winter is the dead season. Not soul who lives, all attractions were closed only the mural in Berri was visible. I went on my way up to Moorpok where I found a bivouac at the edge of river.
En route towards Barmera
21/08/2010
Mural under the bridge
Berri
21/08/2010
Sculpture under the Bridge
Berri
21/08/2010
Bivouac on Murray River
Moorpok
21/08/2010
I decided to spend Sunday August 22 at the edge of the lake Bonney to have rest there although the weather was particularly cold and gloomy. The city was dead and camp-site deserted. I continued reading the novel A town like Alice by Nevil Shute.
Lake Bonney
Barmera
22/08/2010
