Merry merry and oh so happy

Hi there all the beautiful people....we finally made it to Margaret River..Hooray!!! We did 3300 kms in just two weeks from Coober Pedy and had THE most amazing adventures along the way. Have got soooo many photos to update on our blog but will just give you all a little run down first. We left Coober Pedy and our awesome friends Elissa.Rowie And Zac ...was a bit sad to go cause we had such an out of the box experience there and made memories that we will all cherish for a lifetime. Side splitting..tummy turning...heart warming...undie wetting kinda memories. All in such a short time...xxx. Onward bound to the coast line of South Oz yet again. Next penninsula to explore was the Eyre penninsula as we have already checked out the Yorke,Fleurieu and Mornington penninsulas.Ruling IT!!!! First stop was Arno Bay where we picked up 3 dozen freshly caught and unshucked oysters for a crazy 7 dollars a dozen. So we enjoyed oysters every which way.It  was mine and the kidz first time to the beach and ocean in 8wks!!!! OMG. Will sign off for now as i am preparing a thai beef salad and zucchini fritters for our Sunset dinner on the beach here at Prevally. Due to massive photo update the following shots are from our time still in Coober Pedy..Make sure you check out all down loads cause there will be a few until we catch up to now. Sending you all massive amounts of love n joy....sunshine ...lollipops and rainbows. Happily everafters...livin the dream.

AWESOME FUN IN COOBER PEDY

NO TRICK PHOTOGRPHY HERE...ZIGGY IS JUST A FREAK SHOW AT THE COOBER PEDY SKATE PARK..PLAIN AND SIMPLE!!!

ONE OF MY FAVOURITES...SIMPLY BECAUSE THE TYRE MARKS ARE STILL THERE...WHAT THE????

GETTING ARTY NOW....OUT ON THE SALT FLATS OF LAKE HEART.

THE SIGN SAYS IT ALL!!!

ANYONE FOR A SPOT OF AFTERNOON GOLF ON THE FRONT LAWN...????? OR SHOULD I JUST SAY OUT THE FRONT. JUST ONE OF COOBER PEDYS PAST TIMES.

AND OF COURSE...DINNER WOULDNT BE COMPLETE WITHOUT A BREAD ROLL MADE WITH LOVE!!!

AH....NOW WERE GETTING DOWN AND DIRTY...REALLY...INTO AN OLD MINE SHAFT . THIS IS JUST FOR US TOURISTS TO LET US KNOW WHERE THE SHAFTS ARE....THE OTHER GAZILLION OPAL SHAFTS HAVE ONLY A MOUND OF DIRT TO WARN YOU OF POSSIBLE IMMENENT DEATH SHOULD YOU HAPPEN TO COME ACROSS ONE.

 IF YOUR LOOKING UP AND SEEING THIS, YOU HAVE EITHER DIED AND NEED TO GO THE LIGHT ....OR...YOUR INSIDE AN OPAL SHAFT...WE WENT WITH THE LATTER.

""WERE GOIN DOWN.......WAY WAY DOWN.....TO THE UNDERGROUND.."..WHOEVER WROTE THAT SONG MUST HAVE BEEN A MINER.

KEEP DIGGIN KIDZ...PS..ZIGGY AND STARZ HAD JUST HAD THEIR FACES PAINTED, THUS THE SKELETON LOOK. PRETTY APPROPRIATE FOR WHERE WE WERE THOUGH.

THIS IS THE WONDERFUL,TALENTED AND VERY BEAUTIFUL ELISSA AND HER SON ZAC! ELISSA IS A GOOD FRIEND FROM YEARS AGO AND RESIDES IN COOBER PEDY NOW...LUCKY FOR US. ELISSA ,ROWIE AND ZAC ARE WHO WE ARE STAYING WITH HERE AND LISSY HAS HER MINERS LICENCE AND WORKS AT THE BEST OPAL MINE-SHOP IN TOWN..UMOONA! SO TO SAY WE ARE GETTING SPOILT ROTTEN WOULD BE AN UNDERSTATEMENT.

THE MULLOCK HEAPS. BESIDE EVERY MOUND OF DIRT THERE LIES AN OPAL SHAFT. THERE ARE THOUSANDS.

CHEER UP STARZ.

THIS IS AN OLD SORTING MACHINE. LOTS OF PEOPLE STILL USE THEM.

GOTTA LOVE THE CAR!!!

GETTING ARTY AGAIN...LOVIN MY CAMERA.

HOORAY...OUR VERY FIRST FOSSIL FIND....NO...IM NOT TALKING ABOUT THE FOSSIL WITH THE BUM CRACK...HAHAHA..THIS WAS THE FIRST OF MANY MOUNDS OF FOSSILIZED SHELLS,MUSSELS AND PIPIS WE FOUND. THANX TO ROWIE .....OUR INSIDE SOURCE. LOVE YOU ROWIE.

THE LOCALS

PICNIC LUNCH IN AN OLD DRY CREEK BED ....LUVIN IT!!!REALLY DOIN IT TOUGH NOW..HA!

THIS IS ROWIE.......AND THIS IS THE PETRIFIED TREE JUTTING OUT INTO THIS OLD CREEK BED THAT I STUMBLED UPON. IT WAS TRULY AMAZING TO SEE A TREE TURNED TO STONE.OMG. THANX AGAIN ROWIE... WILL TALK YOU UP IN MY NEXT BLOG POST.

AND FINALLY...HAD TO END THE BLOG WITH YET ANOTHER LOVE. AM SO PUTTING TOGETHER A BOOK OF LOVE HEART SHAPED EVERYTHINGS,,,PEACE,JOY,LOVE AND FOSSILS.XXX

FROM COOBER PEDY WITH LOVE

SO... BACK AGAIN!!!! HAVE BEEN HAVIN THE MOST AMAZING TIME FOR THE LAST 6 WEEKS IN COOBER PEDY.....REALLY......"SO...WHAT THE HELL DO YOU DO IN COOBER PEDY ALL THAT TIME???"    YOU MIGHT ASK. WELL.....SO MUCH STUFF I HAVNT HAD TIME TO KEEP EVERYONE UPDATED ON OUR ADVENTURES. FINDING 120 MILLION YEAR OLD FOSSILS OF SHELLS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DESERT WHEN IT USED TO BE AN OCEAN IS JUST THE BEGINNING. WEVE FOUND OPALS,CRYSTALS......OMG THE CRYSTALS!!!!! ICE CRYSTALS THAT ARE EVEN OLDER THAN THE SHELLS THAT WE FOUND....JUST SCATTERED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DESERT....SPECIAL SPOT.  WE ALSO MADE FRIENDS WITH ALOT OF ORPHANED JOEYS THAT NEEDED LOTS OF BOTTLE FEEDING.   OH SO CUTE!!!!! BELIEVE IT OR NOT COOBER PEDY HAS A SKATE PARK TOO....SO...OF COURSE WE HAVE PUT IN QUITE A BIT OF TIME THERE. WE HAVE BEEN LUCKY ENOUGH TO LIVE UNDERGROUND IN A DUG OUT FOR MOST OF THE TIME ALSO WHICH HAS BEEN SOOO COOL...AND I MEAN COOL!! 40 IN THE SHADE OUTSIDE WHILE IT REMAINS A CONSTANT 20-24 IN THE DUG OUT....AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST....THE FRIDAY NIGHT RIFLE CLUB!!!! I KID YOU NOT.....ME,A GUN,AND A CLAY PIDGEON. I NEVER EVER IMAGINED IT .....BUT I RULE IT WITH A RIFLE...HAHA.. NO....I ACTUALLY REALLY DO!! MADE THE LOCAL PAPER AND ALL. JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT YOU HEARD IT ALL. ANY WAY YOU GORGEOUS PEOPLE....WILL LEAVE YOU WITH THE USUAL MILLION PHOTOS TO HAVE A CACK AT...PEACE,LOVE AND SHOT GUN SHOOTING.XXX

Camp BOOYAH......on the Yorke Penninsula



FUN N FROLICKIN AT MARION BAY...

CAPE SPENCER LIGHTHOUSE

ZIGGY AND PENGUIN PETE RE:ENACTING THE PENGUIN HOSPITAL...NEVER A DULL MOMENT!!!!

CAPE SPENCER.....WHO NEEDS POSTCARDS????

THIS WAS OUR VERY OWN PRIVATE BEACH AT CAMP BOOYAH...BETTER KNOWN AS CABLE BAY IN THE INNES NATIONAL PARK.

WHO"S POO?????

MEET THE NEIGHBOURS....ERNIE AND EZRA...THEYRE OFF FOR THE EARLY MORNING SURF CHECK...OH YEAH....THEYRE THE WHO IN THE WHOS POO.... .

INNESTONE HISTORICAL VILLAGE....SO AWESOME...ABANDONED 100 YRS AGO..THEY USED TO MINE GYPSUM THERE AND MAKE PLASTER AND CHALK. THEY MADE THE WHOLE TOWN OUT OF EVERYTHING AROUND THEM,ONLY TIN AND GLASS WAS BOUGHT IN. THE CONCRETE AND EVEN WALLS FOR THE HOUSES WERE ALL MADE OUT OF GYPSUM AND LIME STONE...TOO COOL.

GETTING GOOD WITH THE CAMERA FINALLY...HA..LEAST I THINK SO

THE HUMBLE SHED...EXACTLY AS IT WAS LEFT ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO..

NO TOWN WOULD BE COMPLETE WITHOUT SOMEWHERE FOR SUPERMAN TO CHANGE ...COMPLETE WITH YELLOW GETAWAY BICYCLE

SALT LAKES IN THE DISTANCE

HAD A GREAT DAY....ONE MILLION PHOTOS LATER..

YEAH BULLO.....CHINAMANS HAT

THE LOCALS

THE ELEVATOR?????

BULLOS FIRST SOUTH OZ SQUID.....NO GUESSES AS TO WHAT WENT ON THE WEBBER THAT NIGHT!!!!

TOMMY RUFFS COURTESY OF STENHOUSE BAY WHARF...AND THE PARKINSONS GOING AWAY PRESSY FOR THE KIDZ. THANX HEAPS JOEL AND MONS....THE KIDZ ARE RULIN' IT WITH THEIR NEW RODS AND HAVIN A BALL. MADE THE BEST THAI FISH CAKES OUT OF THESE LITTLE BEAUTIES... OMG ..ANOTHER AWESOME DINNER ON THE  WEBBER!!!!

THIS WAS FIRST CATCH OF THE DAY AND WE ENDED UP WITH ATLEAST 15. FUNNY THING WAS THERE WAS ATLEAST ANOTHER 20 PEOPLE FISHIN OFF THE WHARF BUT WE WERE THE ONLY ONES CATCHING ANYTHING....HA...YA LOVE IT!!!!

PUTS A NEW MEANING TO HOW MUCH LOVE GOES INTO YOUR COOKING...BULL IS FINALLY CATCHIN ON...LOVE YOU HUNNY

HA...THIS IS BY FAR MY FAVOURITE PHOTO OF ME SO FAR....MY BUSH LAUNDRY....WHO EVER THOUGHT DOING THE WASHING COULD BE SO MUCH FUN...THAT AINT LIVIN BARRY.....THIS IS LIVIN!!!!!!!

JUST DOWN THE ROAD ...YET ANOTHER DESERTED POSTCARD BEACH....TRIED A SPOT OF BEACH FISHING THERE BUT NO LUCK.

THIS IS CAMP BOOYAH!!!! AKA CABLE BAY....THIS WAS OUR NO RECEPTION...NO POWER...NO WATER...NO WORRIES..

THE NEIGHBOURS HAD THE SHITS WITH US THAT MORNING

 WALKWAY TO OUR PRIVATE BEACH.

THE DINING ROOM....HOW MUCH MORE OOOOLALA CAN CAMPING BE????

STARZYS GOT IT WIRED...COME ON ZIG!!

THIS WAS OUR STOP OVER AT PORT PIRIE....MID MORNINGS WE WERE ENTERTAINED BY THE LOCAL OPERA. IT CONSISTED OF OLD MATE HERE SWIMMING FOR AN HOUR IN THE RIVER,SINGING THE MOST AMAZING OPERA FOR THE DURATION OF HIS SWIM.THE TOWNS LEAD SMELTER HAS A LOT TO ANSWER FOR...HA. LOTS OF LOVE,JOY PEACE AND BRUSSEL SPROUTS. THE BULLOCKS

Massive photo update

BULLO AT EUCHUCA PORTERY...SEE YOU TOMORROW HONEY...MASSIVE VATS OF PORT AGED IN OLD SPIRIT VATS...WE HAD QUITE THE ARVO THERE AND LEFT WITH A 5LT JERRY CAN ASWELL AS A HANGOVER THE FOLLOWING MORNING

ZIGGY ON TOUR

  

ANYONE FOR BACON N EGGS????? THE BIG BAD WOLF HAS MET HIS MATCH!!!!

MOMENT...DONT JUST STAND THERE ...BUST A MOVE

 LOVE YOU....

SNOT REALLY A GOOD PHOTO

OUR FRONT YARD ON ARRIVAL AT PORT ELLIOT...STAYED HERE FOR JUST OVER A WEEK LOOKING FOR THE POT OF GOLD

HAVING SOME REALLY SHITHOUSE PICNICS...NOT!!!

AAAHHHH...SWEET LOVE

GRANITE ISLAND'S FLOWER FAIRY

GRANITE ISLAND'S FAIRY PENGUIN HOSPITAL..TOOOOO CUTE

OUR RIDE OVER TO THE ISLAND

DOUBLE BUBBLE...NO TROUBLE!!

SAMMY THE SEAL GREETED US ON OUR EARLY MORNING WALKS ALONG  PORT ELLIOT EVERY MORNING...HE ALSO JOINED US FOR OUR LUNCH TIME PICNICS

JUST WATCHIN SAMMY...

STARZY TO THE RESCUE

ZIGGY NOT FAR BEHIND...

 WHENEVER THERES TROUBLE...FIREMAN SAM....NO REALLY...THIS IS SAM..!! SAM SAM THE FIREMAN...THANX HEAPS FOR THE GUIDED TOUR SAM...THANX AGAIN SAM AND AMELIA FOR LETTING US HANG OUT IN THEIR GARDEN FOR A BIT...

BIG CHAIR

BIG TYRE

BIG ORANGE

EVERYTHING JUST KEEPS GETTING BIGGER....AND BIGGER....AND BIGGER