Monday, January 01, 2007

Deep in the Desert...

The longer we spent in the desert the more it became apparent that Scots just aren't designed for this environment! It was roastin!! Good fun tho. We made some great mates along the way and kept everyone up to speed with the drinking games!

The Olgas, Kata Tjuta

Walking through The Olgas

Salt anyone?

This huge salt lake was created in the 1970's when Britain used the area to test its atomic bombs. After spending about half an hour here we all ensured that we are now completely infertile and will probably die of some weird form of cancer.*

Yeah Micky's screwed

The rabbit fence. This is the longest fence in the world which stretches right across Australia. It's a bit retarded cos, as we all know rabbits can dig! Australians aren't turning out to be the brightest of people really.

Dereck our driver with the Italian lads Mattia and Angelo

Coober Pedy is a bit of a strange town. It would be a great set for a horror movie actually. Everyone in the town lives underground in caves. They can help pay for their home or strike it rich too because this is also one of the largest Opal mining regions in Australia.

Our accomodation which was very hostel like, cut out of the side of a hill.

Sarah, Shad and Gez in the batcave

A house we got a tour of which was built underground

PARTY! It was one of the girls' birthdays so we all went to the local Italian restaurants for pizza. What a laugh. We nearly managed to clear out the whole place cos we made so much noise!

Mattia and Danny in their elf outfits

King elf Sarah

Saying our goodbyes. Look at that sad wee face


*This is complete bulls**t. I think. We do know that the area was used as a bombing range however and apparently Britain did test atomic weapons in the desert, about 200km from this location. Lovely.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

hey chris its nicola yer fav wee cuz just to let u no my e-mail address so u dnt loose touch this time xx -- nicola.m90@ntlworld.com talk 2 u soon x nic x

Anonymous said...

Hi kristofer,nicola told me about your escapades! By the way, its jackie, stephens wife and your godmother. You seem to be having a brilliant time, the photos are ace! P.S. Are you sure your old enough to be drinking?? Cos if you are that makes us v.old as I was well into my twenties when you were born! Just seems like yesterday. And the last time I was looking at photos of you was when you were cute pageboy at our wedding, although don`t think the photographer would agree as he couldn`t get you to stop flashing what was under your kilt! Well nice to know nothings changed. Well happy traveling, i1ll check in soon and keep an eye on you, so please behave. Lots love jackie. xxx e-mail s.mcatear@ntlworld.com