{"id":25347,"date":"2011-03-24T04:28:08","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T08:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/25347\/great-australia-road-trip-page-ten\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T16:44:52","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T16:44:52","slug":"great-australia-road-trip-page-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/25347\/great-australia-road-trip-page-ten\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Australia Road Trip \u2013 Page Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 10 – Saturday – September 25, 2010<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Weather:\u00a0 Sunny, Clear & Warm<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Destination:\u00a0 Coober Pedy, South Australia, Australia<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Odometer Reading:\u00a0 98379<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Total Distance Traveled:\u00a0 3036 kilometers (1886 miles)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Price of Fuel:\u00a0 Port Pirie – $1.26.9 liter, 55.21 liters, $70.07; Woomera – $1.51.9 liter, 48.00 liters, $72.91; Glendambo – $1.41.9 liter, 23.14 liters, $32.83<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Route Taken:\u00a0 Port Pirie to Port Augusta to Woomera to Glendambo to Coober Pedy<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Highlights:\u00a0 It’s finally warm and soon we’ll be traveling in shorts.\u00a0 We started early today since we wanted to make it to Coober Pedy before dark.\u00a0 We stopped in Port Augusta to pick up supplies, especially water.\u00a0 Since we\u2019re at the start of the Outback the two things we really don\u2019t want to run out of is water and fuel.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

After Port Augusta the drive is long, boring and tiring.\u00a0 Not much but flat, red desert from horizon to horizon, broken only by the highway, a few trees and stubby plants.\u00a0 If it weren’t for the constant search to try and see some critters, and the occasional photo stop, I’d probably be failing as a co-pilot and sleeping on the job.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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We did see a red fox run across the highway, an emu standing out in the flats, and a fair sized lizard, but we haven’t seen a live kangaroo since we left the Adelaide area.\u00a0 Road kill, however, abounds.\u00a0 It’s got to be because of the road trains.\u00a0 We\u2019re told they stop for nothing.\u00a0 They don’t have to since they are so huge.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The highway took us through the Gairdner National Park which broke the monotony of the scenery a little bit.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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We made it to Coober Pedy right about 5:30 p.m. and drove through town.\u00a0 There\u2019s not much to the town and it appears that most of the shops are closed (as in empty).\u00a0 I hope that\u2019s not the case, since we came here to check out the opal shops and the underground parts of town.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Stops:\u00a0 Photo ops, diesel and stretch stops were the only thing on the agenda today.\u00a0 We have a long way to go between civilized places now.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Where We Stayed:\u00a0 We made it to the Big 4 Oasis Tourist Park just before closing time.\u00a0 We grabbed one of their last powered spots for $30.00 a night.\u00a0 The guy at the desk was so nice (surfer boy cute, too).\u00a0 We talked with him for a bit and discussed the outcome of the Australia Football League playoff game which has been the biggest thing talked about on television for the last week.\u00a0 For anyone interested, it ended in a draw.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Where We Ate:\u00a0 I tried to get The Man to go out to the underground restaurant to have dinner, but he was too whooped from the drive.\u00a0 So we stayed in and had McCain’s Fettuccine Bolognese, green salad and the Bega cheese and crackers.\u00a0 We’re hooked on that cheese.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Day 10 – Saturday – September 25, 2010 Weather:\u00a0 Sunny, Clear & Warm Destination:\u00a0 Coober Pedy, South Australia, Australia Odometer Reading:\u00a0 98379 Total Distance Traveled:\u00a0 3036 kilometers (1886 miles) Price of Fuel:\u00a0 Port Pirie – $1.26.9 liter, 55.21 liters, $70.07; Woomera – $1.51.9 liter, 48.00 liters, $72.91; Glendambo – $1.41.9 liter, 23.14 liters, $32.83 Route […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,837,2,42,25],"tags":[651,2749,2432,2431,2603,398],"class_list":["post-25347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-nature-2","category-other","category-photography","category-world","tag-australia","tag-coober-pedy","tag-motorhome","tag-road-trip","tag-scenic-views","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116519,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25347\/revisions\/116519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}