Yes, it's a grave. Apparently the guy was diagnosed with cancer and went and got himself a hefty credit card for the last few months of his life, and blew it on daft things like this. He was buried in a corrugated iron coffin, apparently, having paid the local metalworker before he died.

This is the picturesque town of Coober Pedy.

This is the local underground Anglican church. The pastor guy drives up and down the main roads for hundreds of kilometres and collects lost hubcaps to nail onto his house.

This is the house of a guy who collects stuff from movie sets (Pitch Black, Mad Max III, Priscilla Queen of the Desert and a load of others filmed here) and other junk and makes art out of them. This is some of his art. The people in this town are eccentric.

The Dog Fence, longest fence in the world. Supposed to keep dingoes away from sheeps.

Some interesting geological formations.

More of the area known as the Breakaways.

This is Crocodile Harry's front door. As in that's his house on the other side of it.

This is the dorm I spent a week in in Radeka's Downunder Hostel.

The sun starts to ascend into the sky over the Big Winch.

One of Brigitte's neighbouring houses.

You'd think this would be enough to convince people.

I'm assuming this was used in the filming of Pitch Black, and isn't for real. But with the folks around here it's hard to know.

They ain't kidding.

A view of the south end of town. The flat building in the dead centre is Brigitte's surface-level shed.