This morning the caravan park took us on a tour of the town. We saw a couple of churches that are dugouts, as well as some more old school dugouts as well as some that represent more like today's living. It was amazing to see how they lived and live underground (40% of the locals live in dugouts). We checked out the Umoona Opal mine and museum that showed some history of Opals and how they were discovered here in Coober Pedy. The local golf course was of interest to all as there is no grass, at all. The water here comes from a bore that is 26 kms away and then treated locally before supplied to the town. They do recycle the water for the school oval, which is quite small. This town has interesting stories about it and is surviving in pretty harsh conditions.
We were in Pimba the night before last and fuelled up the ute there, discovering that we get about 350kms from a tank. It took us about six hours to travel this distance too. We stopped for lunch at the end of the RFDS strip which is on the main highway. Wondering how they ensure no cars drive when they need to land..
Prior to Pimba we stayed at Baldina and did the Burra self history tour. It was great to spend some time at Baldina before we set off on our big adventure.
Burra - Copper mine
The drive between Pimba and Coober Pedy is long and barren.
Here are some shots from this morning's tour of Coober Pedy.
these shaft holes are up to 30 meters deep, they say that back in the day if someone stole from another opal miner they might have ended up in one of these but the locals would be told that they "went to Queensland" if anyone asked. (Obviously back in the day..).
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Coober Pedy - golfing
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