Glendambo to Coober Pedy

Wednesday 25 April

A straight run through into Coober Pedy. The scenery along the way isn’t quite what we had imagined. Even though there is absolutely nothing to be seen anywhere, the road is not dead flat and meanders occasionally over gently undulating hills.  The only excitement we had was an ambulance flashed us as he passed and we didn't know why, then about 400 metres further on we could see a flock of emus on the road. Brian slowed right down and gave them a toot on  the horn which made them scurry all over the road.  Brian was very busy watching them pass across to our right before we started moving again and just as he began to move another idiot emu ran across from our left, got a bump on its rear end and did  forward roll across he road. Don't worry he was OK, quickly jumped back up and joined his mates over the other side of the road. Mind you it did feel like us 1, emus 0! 
We arrived in Coober Pedy around lunchtime and it is nothing like we expected. The town itself is very dirty and doesn’t have a nice feel to it. It is a little bit sprawling over treeless hills and maybe because you can’t actually see any houses as most are underground, it is difficult to feel that you are actually in a town.

We decided to do a bit of sightseeing after lunch to the odd opal shop, museum and underground house – these are called dugouts – but the highlight had to be the underground Serbian Orthodox Church. They only have 2 services a year as the Serbian population has declined over the years. We headed north about 35kms to watch the sunset over the breakaways. A group of mesas of varying colours that pick up the red rays of the setting sun.

  We think we have pretty much covered everything we want to see here, so have decided to leave tomorrow and give ourselves another day to play with late.

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