I was a bit sad leaving Coober Pedy this morning-I felt as though we needed another night so's we could do the half day town tour. We did it about 9 1/2 years ago so I'm sure SOMETHING must have changed! Our very nice neighbours Sue and Terry decided to stay on another night and I'd have enjoyed getting to know them a little better too. We've exchanged e-mails though and may meet up in Exmouth in a month or so.
We planned to drive as far as Kulgera Roadhouse today but were told at Cadney Park Roadhouse that the highway was closed at Marla due to a fatal crash 60ks north of there. Funny, we'd commented that we weren't seeing much traffic and certainly no trucks, motor homes or caravans-just the (very) odd 4WD. We decided to go on to Marla but sussed out a couple of likely free camping spots in the event we couldn't get in at the road house. It was crawling with cops and travellers but the caravan park was quite empty so we decided to stay on rather than hang round hoping the road would open and we could contnue on. That was likely to be at least 4 hours and maybe early evening-way past our travelling time no matter what!
So, here we are, very comfortable for the night, with a few more ks tomoroww to get to Ayers rock than we'd planned on.
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