Roadtrip

We heroically covered 1000 kilometers on our first day of travel. If you ask me - it was great. I slept, observed
the beauties of Aussie, read my book and watched 5 episodes of Desperate Housewives.
The problem was, that as soon as we got out of Melbourne it started raining, sometimes pouring nonstop and it was +7C outside and I was not looking forward to setting up our tents in that kind of environment, not mentioning to sleep in one.
Luckily, we stopped at the great town of Peterborough, which looked like it had about 100 people that lived there.
The Resort Motel we stayed in had an eatery, that was proudly called a "restaurant" which was not only remarkable for food, but also
for it's customers and decor. A very tall older man and a very short older lady served a few clients
and everyone was very very quiet and...how do I put this...somewhat overweight.
The salad I asked for had vegetables carefully arranged in a fabulous design as you can see on the picture.

On the second day we did something even more remarkable: We went on a 7 hour hike in Flinders Ranges, South Australia's largest mountain range.
It started as a nice walk and later we ended up climbing vertical rocks. It's a bummer we didn't get all the way

to the top of Mary's peek - the sun was going down and believe me, you do not want to come back in the dark,
which we still had to do, but for a limited period of time. Australia has the biggest number of poisonous snakes and I was very scared to step on one of them.
The local "hot spot" - motel bistro - was the best possible ending
for our exhaustive walk. The night was cool...but not in a good way. I was wearing like 10 sweaters and was still shivering in my tent...after a few days I learned a special technique to stay warm in the tent called "wear everything you have"
But enough about that.
I finally had a chance to hang out with my friends - Kangaroos. We had some nice social time with Skippy:

We took a sun bath...

We exchanged some gossip...


And then, just as I started to talk about Paris Hilton, my friend got bored.
After leaving the campground we found ourselves in the town of Coober Pedy, which is known to be the biggest
opal mining area in the whole world! Since it is located in the middle of the the desert and it gets extremely hot in summer, people live UNDER the ground. Here you can see me standing on someones roof and holding on to someone's ventilation pipe!

TO BE CONTINUED...