Tuesday the 12th of July 2022 – Coober Pedy, South Australia

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Welcome to Coober Pedy

We’ve spent the last 2 days here in Coober Pedy after our overnight stay in Woomera. Coober Pedy is named after the local indigenous naming “Kupa Piti” meaning Whiteman’s Burrows. We’ve spent time underground (me constantly hitting my head) in a Church, Mine and a home. We’ve free camped just outside of town and its been safe and secure (so far, we leave tomorrow morning). We travelled out to the Breakaways about 30 k’s out of CP and it was spectacular, one of the great natural wonders of Australia in my opinion. All in all we’ve had a great time in Cooper Pedy.

Our free camp on the “commons” just outside CP.
St Peter & Paul’s Catholic Church, the oldest underground church in CP, (had to have a solid roof for me to go into a church).
An underground mine that was first started back in 1918, after the boys returned from WWI. (I had a hard hat thankfully, as I walked around looking at my feet as I hit my head).

A kitchen from a underground home that was occupied from the early 1960’s to the 1990’s.

Stuart’s Desert Pea!
A panorama of the “Breakaways” so named as the hills had broken away from the Stuart Ranges in the area.
A section of the spectacular “Breakaways” truly a great natural wonder of Australia.
A small section of the Breakaways. The Cruiser looks like a moon buggy in this landscape.
A section of the Dog Fence (or Dingo Fence) that stretches 5,300 K’s from the south to north of Australia. It’s there to protect the eastern and southern states from Dingo attacks on sheep and cattle.

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