Another Big day of Driving up through the desert to get to Coober Pedy, famous for Opals and living underground.

Drive up was a bit more interesting than others recently as the country side changed from something that looked remotley like was usable, to huge salt lakes (and I mean huge, you could not see the other side), to Desert, where there was nothing.

Then in the middle of nowhere, we came across Woomera (well actually Pimba - a service station was on the main road, you had to turn off and drive 10km to get to Woomera). This was an interesting place. I think Woomera, I think detention centre. well there was not one, and has not been one since 2003! So what is Woomera famous for, well it used to be a closed town till 1982, ie you could not visit it as a member of the public, but since it is really in the middle of the desert I would wonder why you would want to visit it. Now it is famous as it is now a defence force base supporting the Woomera Test range.

The test range is used to evaluate land based weapons. It is the largest land based weapons test facility in the world.  It has been used to launch Satellites, and after NASA's facility a Cape Canaveral, Woomera has the highest number of rocket launches in the world!

They also have some of the old rockets, and crashed ones on display, which the kids, and big kids enjoyed. Town though was very dry (no grass in site except one small park).

Continued on our way north to Coober Pedy and the scenery started to change as there were small mines and hills/ mounds on tailings all over the place. Boy man has sure made a mess here!

Yet another 550 Km for the day!