Thursday, January 8, 2009

3 Jan 2009: Coober Pedy

We spent a day in Coober Pedy, seeing the sights.Hot (35C on the day), dry and dusty!Some of the underground homes.The landscape around CP is full of these mounds, which result from the diggings.
Exploratory hole.We went down a working mine.
The miners were having a meeting.
The dark strata is opal.
Opal under uv light.
Visited the stony plains...
...where a lizard posed for me.
We also saw the Dingo Fence - note the bullet holes in the sign.
The Breakaways, where movies like Mad Max and Priscilla were filmed. I have seen neither.
The Coober Pedy golf course.
The green is levelled out and compacted with sump oil.
A Bearded LizardA beer keg for a tombstone, in the local cemetery.
The Serbian Orthodox Church, also underground.
Finally, opal shopping!

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