No way, mate. This is all true. When we get back to Adelaide, you can check it all out at the library, or the museum. Maybe because it only has water in it during the winter, or when there's a flood every few years or so. It's the lowest point in Australia, about 15 metres below sea level, it serves as a kind of plug hole for the inland.
Water drains right away below the salt pan.
Left from the sea. Peter could almost feel Akira's eagerness to explore the semi-desert unreeling under them. Don't worry, you'll have plenty of opportunity to get to know it when we land in Coober Pedy. Akira nodded his head energetically. Yes, I am looking forward very much to seeing the place.