Thread: Coober Pedy-Wilpena Pound-Broken Hill

About to head off for Coober Pedy, going up the Calder Hwy through Burra to avoid having to deal with Adelaide traffic. Planning to stop at Wycheproof tonight and setting off early Saturday morning. Will post pics and commentary.

Burra butcher has fab. saltbush hogget. But 'spect he'll be closed tomorrow.

Pulled up just outside of Culgoa, 382 Km down - 1300 to go. If things normally tonight, I'll be up at around 3:00 A.M. for a pit stop. If that's the case I'll make some brekky and head out early

It's a tough life, but someone's gotta live it .
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Originally Posted by Grumpy John

About to head off for Coober Pedy, going up the Calder Hwy through Burra to avoid having to deal with Adelaide traffic.

Ya gotta be kiddin! I pulled up at the intersection of King Billy St (the main drag, or close to it) and something else at 5.15pm on a weekday. By the the time the lights were green again, there was still only 3 of us waiting.

It'll be great trip GJ. I'm with Ern on Broken Hill. It's good, but save the time to spend more at some of the other places. CP has to be full of faces for portraits.

Must be a fridge in there.

Couldn't be warm beer

Looking good John, safe travels

ps your shed looks so clean when it is empty

CP has two campgrounds.

One on the outskirts: newer facilities but will cop any winds going; can be a pox.
One in 'town': a bit tatty but more sheltered. Closer to the eateries. That was our choice last time and will be again.

Be sure you lock up wherever you go. Wild West out there.

Originally Posted by rsser

CP has two campgrounds.

Be sure you lock up wherever you go. Wild West out there.

Pretty sure there was an old bone poking out of from under ya left wheeel of your trailer GJ, any chance of throwing a few under ya front seat?

CP still has a Greek presence as well as descendants of Muslims who were camel drivers (named regardless as 'ghans = Afghanis).

They were valued in the white settling of the outback not cos they managed camel trains but cos by religion they didn't drink. And so delivered reliably.

Originally Posted by rsser

CP has two campgrounds.

One on the outskirts: newer facilities but will cop any winds going; can be a pox.
One in 'town': a bit tatty but more sheltered. Closer to the eateries. That was our choice last time and will be again.

Be sure you lock up wherever you go. Wild West out there.

I worked on a station there as a young fella in the mid 60's, civilized now compared to then but is still different than most places for sure. The cocky I worked for used to sometimes supply meat to the local store. We would kill and butcher a couple of beasts out in the paddock, cart the meat to town in the back of land rovers. The miners would start lining up as we were unloading it. All cash money, imagine the scene now if sprung by the local hygiene officer, they would have a blue fit.

Originally Posted by rsser

Must be a fridge in there.

Couldn't be warm beer

Yes, there is a fridge in the camper, but it's struggling to keep anything tepid let alone cold. This is the hottest place I've ever been, and that includes Dampier, Karratha, and Port Hedland. It's ten o'clock at night and the water coming out of the tank under the camper is 37 deg.C

I'm at the Oasis Caravan Park (opposite the drive in theatre). It has really good security, they lock the gates at 10 P.M. and open them at 6 A.M

The Breakaways
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Breakaways.

Damn good shot.

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Yeah, gas fridges are only good for dropping the temp by 15C or so. And cheapies don't do thermostasis.

Next time take a compressor chest fridge.

But you're getting your electrolytes.

Hi,
If the hot heat exchanger of the fridge is accessible hang a wet cloth (tea towel or such) over it. It acts as a evaporative cooler,the heat exchanger has to lose heat and if the temp is so hot that it can't, fridge no work.
Regards

Some folk fit computer fans to help performance.

And you should've been told to keep it level when running on gas.

Correction: some folk report a 25 degree drop under some circumstances.