On an a break from driving, I took a purely chance turn-off to "The Breakaways" just north of Coober Pedy. With no expectation of finding anything of note, I was promptly blown away by a landscape unlike any other I've seen.
From this ridge top for as far as the eye can see...
With all the opal mining in the area it took an interpretive board kindly provided by Parks SA to convince me that this is a natural landscape and not the result of human (or alien) activity.
Once an inland sea, the geology here is a patchwork of colour, texture and contrast.
Fascinated with Coober Pedy (in the same way you can't help but look at a car accident) we detoured to Andamooka - Just like Coober Pedy... only not so polished!
Lake Hart, one of SA's many salt lakes.
Back in Coober Pedy...
Is this a joke? Or should the guy who put up this sign follow his own advice?
Fascinated with Coober Pedy (in the same way you can't help but look at a car accident) we detoured to Andamooka - Just like Coober Pedy... only not so polished!
I thought these miners shacks must have been built some time in the 1800's, but the writing on this one set me straight proudly declaring "built Sept 6th 1956"
Inside one of the cottages...
Lake Hart, one of SA's many salt lakes.
Leaving the desert and resting at Port Germien where the grey mood persisted through low tide.
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