Coober Pedy

 
 
 

We travelled a lot today. We spent 9 ½ hours in the car and watched Star Wars and Shrek the Third. We also listened to ½ of the Nimbin, an audio book (thanks Mr and Mrs Blake!)

Everywhere you look there are little hills of sand where the people have mined. The main street which we drove through today (and will look at tomorrow) has many Opal stores for buying souvenirs and learning about the history of Opal mining.

Off to bed now because I am so tired from the long drive.

Day 2
This morning we went to the Old Timer’s Mine and we found heaps of opals “noodling” in the pit at the entrance. In the mine we saw dummies dressed up as miners to show us how they mined for opals, tools that they used and the underground homes. They were only small rooms and were lived in up until 1988. Did you know Coober Pedy is the opal capital of the world ?

After that we spent some time walking the main street looking in many opal shops – there was plenty of jewellery. We had lunch at John’s Pizza (Uncle Simon would love this place). I had some wedges with sweet chilli sauce. James, Mum and Dad had pizza.

We had a restful afternoon playing games.