South Australia Camps & Caravan Sites

This salt lake is usually dry salt crystals, but at the moment it’s full of water! The locals we spoke to say they’ve never seen it with water before. There’s a free camp here, just beside the highway which is

Our first stop in Coobs was lunch! The best view in town is the restaurant Big Winch 360, there’s grass, beanbags, and a great view over the town. We managed to park a couple of vans in the car park.

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If you’d like to try your hand at finding opal, Old Timers Mine has noodling pits in the front of the shop that are free to look through, they are topped up each day so you’ll find something. There is

This free camp is just off the highway, you can drive a fair way back to reduce road noise. It was a peaceful spot, had a big fire, played games, and watched the great sunset & sunrise. Looked like we

How’s this for random, this is a prop from the movie Pitch Black. The cockpit of Hunter Gratzner is still here in the carpark, left over from the filming in Coober Pedy back in 2000. #pitchblack #huntergratzner #cooberpedy #southaustralia

With free entry to the museum area, Umoona was great to learn more about the land and opals. Don’t forget to go up on the ‘roof’ to checkout what the land looks like on top of this dugout. You can

We were able to browse through this lovely underground shop, there’s some pretty amazing pieces here, fossils as well as opal. Trevor (I hope I have that right) was kind enough to show the kids how he cuts & polishes

I knew when we came to Coober Pedy that I’d love to stay underground, in a Dugout and I got my wish shortly after Mothers Day (pretty good present for a traveling mum!) We chose Di’s Place, a beautiful 3