Well now change of state brought a change of weather, it was cloudy and looked like rain this morning, and a change of scenery. We were seeing scattered hills of various shapes and sizes and plains of low green scrubland. The rest centres, as we passed them were large flat areas without toilets but with a small gazebo. The first stop was a town called Marla which is the turning point for those going on the Oodnadatta track and is a bustling roadhouse supporting a full range of roadside enterprises. Then on towards Coober Pedy.

We came over a small hill and in front of us we can see lots of little white mounds of earth. Then as we proceeded there was thousands of these little hills and some a little bigger and some big ones. These represented opal diggings, so many that the ground must be like the honeycomb that you buy in the shop. As we had covered a lot of kms today we didn't reach here until late so after a quick look around we have camped about 13 kms south of the town and will go back into town to do the tourist thing tomorrow.