Coober Pedy

Coober Pedy, an eyesore or a tribute to human resilience, take your pick, but for me the real beauty of this place is in the Breakaways. This area of spectacular formations is ,on a dirt road, about 40 Klms from Coober Pedy. The area is sacred to the local aboriginal people, where they interred the bones of their dead, initiated their young men and accessed the red ochre for sacred corroborees. I arrived just before sunrise and there was a heavy mist which took several hours to clear. Slowly, the amazing landscape was revealed.