Chantal and Thomas on the road
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…from Esperance via Kalgoorlie-Boulder to Albany
“Yes, we too wanted to take a look into the deep hole, and perhaps we would have been as lucky as those men who triggered a gold rush north of Esperance over a hundred years ago.”
But here too, the distances were long; very long. Read More
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…via Coober Pedy
Port Augusta was already many kilometres behind us. We were excited to see what awaited us in Coober Pedy – in the middle of the Australian outback – where people dig for opal stones and hope for a certain amount of success. For us, this detour into the outback meant a detour of almost 1,000 kilometres on the Stuart Highway. There were no other, less travelled roads or paths that would have taken us away from the huge road trains (lorries with up to 5 trailers and a length of 65 metres). Read More