Woomera

It is very quiet at Woomera, not much here apart from an open air display of rockets and planes. We visited Roxby Downs and Andamooka, we planned to do a tour of the Olympic Dam mine, but when we rang it was fully booked. Andamooka is an opal mining town and a very strange place, very frontier town looking with giant mounds of earth everywhere and looks very shabby. See photo.

Roxby Downs is a reasonably sized town (about 4000 people) and is quite picturesque. It was built from scratch in the 1980's to house the workers at the Olympic Dam mine. The mine is one of the largest in the world. We did the obligatory town walk. It is a very neat and tidy town and friendly as well.

The caravan park here in Woomera has it's own bar, complete with flashing lights and music which opens at 5pm each night. Certainly different from all the other parks we have stayed at so far.