Coober Pedy to Port Augusta<\/p>\n
High point: Beating the boys at their own game of Risk (just the once)<\/p>\n
Low point: Port Augusta. Quote from the Lonely Planet \u2018it is a sad and tatty place\u2019<\/p>\n
No point: Fuad opening his book to read it and remembering he’d finished it on the plane<\/p>\n
Quote of the day: Paul Barham \u201cWhere are all the dead fish?\u201d<\/p>\n
Dish of the day: ham and cheese toasties\n<\/embed><\/object><\/p>\nIt was sad leaving Coober Pedy, it really is like nowhere else we\u2019ve been or probably will go again.\u00a0 Apparently the name Coober Pedy means \u2018white man\u2019s hole in the ground\u2019.\u00a0 Sleeping in an underground dorm in bunks made for little people the place really did what it said on the tin.<\/p>\nThe people we met were really friendly, even if they won\u2019t necessarily tell you their real name, quote \u201cWhat\u2019s your name?\u201d, \u201cEr, er, let me see, what is it today, John, no call me Alan\u201d.\u00a0 The same guy told us there are two types of people living in Coober Pedy, the ‘wanted’ and the ‘unwanted’.\u00a0 I don\u2019t really believe that applies to everyone but about half the population live in dugouts underground due to the weather (which can reach over 50 degrees in summer) so it must be an easy place to hide if you need to.<\/p>\nThe drive from Coober Pedy to Port Augusta was pretty uneventful, the roads were long and boring.\u00a0 Going for a little wee\u00a0proved to be\u00a0a bit of a problem due to the lack of adequate foliage at the side of the road, that and the fact the boys were beeping the horn and laughing as me and Louise tried to hide behind the only two trees for miles around.<\/p>\nThe highlight of the day was stopping at Lake Hart, a huge salt lake that looked like you could ice skate on it.\u00a0\u00a0So what does happen to\u00a0all the dead fish?\u00a0 Apparently very few species are able to live in salt lakes because of, you guessed it,\u00a0the high level of salt. The largest population is brine shrimp which are fed to prawns in Asia, sold as novelty “sea monkeys”\u00a0or live\/dehydrated\u00a0as fish food.\u00a0\u00a0To be honest\u00a0I don’t really know where all the dead fish go but I do know I’m glad I’m not a brine shrimp.<\/p>\nAmy<\/p>\n[flickr album=72157625270631211 num=30 size=Square]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coober Pedy to Port Augusta High point: Beating the boys at their own game of Risk (just the once) Low point: Port Augusta. Quote from the Lonely Planet \u2018it is a sad and tatty place\u2019 No point: Fuad opening his book to read it and remembering he’d finished it on the plane Quote of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expedition-updates","category-perth-to-brisbane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4088"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5963,"href":"https:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088\/revisions\/5963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.followthatfireengine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
It was sad leaving Coober Pedy, it really is like nowhere else we\u2019ve been or probably will go again.\u00a0 Apparently the name Coober Pedy means \u2018white man\u2019s hole in the ground\u2019.\u00a0 Sleeping in an underground dorm in bunks made for little people the place really did what it said on the tin.<\/p>\n
The people we met were really friendly, even if they won\u2019t necessarily tell you their real name, quote \u201cWhat\u2019s your name?\u201d, \u201cEr, er, let me see, what is it today, John, no call me Alan\u201d.\u00a0 The same guy told us there are two types of people living in Coober Pedy, the ‘wanted’ and the ‘unwanted’.\u00a0 I don\u2019t really believe that applies to everyone but about half the population live in dugouts underground due to the weather (which can reach over 50 degrees in summer) so it must be an easy place to hide if you need to.<\/p>\n
The drive from Coober Pedy to Port Augusta was pretty uneventful, the roads were long and boring.\u00a0 Going for a little wee\u00a0proved to be\u00a0a bit of a problem due to the lack of adequate foliage at the side of the road, that and the fact the boys were beeping the horn and laughing as me and Louise tried to hide behind the only two trees for miles around.<\/p>\n
The highlight of the day was stopping at Lake Hart, a huge salt lake that looked like you could ice skate on it.\u00a0\u00a0So what does happen to\u00a0all the dead fish?\u00a0 Apparently very few species are able to live in salt lakes because of, you guessed it,\u00a0the high level of salt. The largest population is brine shrimp which are fed to prawns in Asia, sold as novelty “sea monkeys”\u00a0or live\/dehydrated\u00a0as fish food.\u00a0\u00a0To be honest\u00a0I don’t really know where all the dead fish go but I do know I’m glad I’m not a brine shrimp.<\/p>\n
Amy<\/p>\n
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