Kombi Blog

Well the count down has begun for our big tip to Uluru. We are planning to leave this Saturday morning and head to Cobar NSW for our first stop some 570km. All up we plan to travel some 7000km. Our only hiccup is that today I discovered a stuck valve which will [...]

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Got Shirl back today, all fixed and ready to go - not long now.
Ian

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Well we are just about ready and have finalised the Itinerary which you can check out here - http://kombiblog.com/trips/uluru/lithgow-to-uluru-itinerary
All we need to pack the Kombi tomorrow and leave first thing Saturday morning.
See you on the road.
Ian

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Uluru & Return - An Update
Preparations
Getting ready to leave and packing seemed to cause more stress than we anticipated. As it got closer to our departure date more & more people seemed to have one or two things they needed me to do before we left – it felt crazy.
Packing was up to Carolyn [...]

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After I checked and adjusted the valves on Shirl we spent the rest of today walking around Coober Pedy and noodling (looking for opals), and yes we found some! Just little ones without much colour - but they are opals.
Our biggest surprise was a trip out to The Breakaways, The Dog Fence and Moon [...]

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We spent today walking around Coober Pedy and meeting up with some family who are also travelling around this big brown land of ours. There is really a lot more to Coober Pedy than we first thought.

Our first port of call was to The Old Timers Mine which was one of the first Opal Mines [...]

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