Strange place Coober Pedy - a bit of the wild west in it. It's an opal mining town where a lot of people come for a short time but they find opals, grow beards and never leave. If it wasn't for Coober Pedy there would be nothing here - except maybe an extension of one of the regions whopping cattle station. Instead, the landscape is dotted with mounds like a whole lot of human sized rabbits have dug burrows here - and they have in the search to strike it big with a haul of opals. The majority of the houses and hotels are built into mounds of sandstone - a nice way to avoid 40 degree days.
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| Night storm brewing |
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| View of the town with everything built into the mounds of sandstone |
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| Serbian church |
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| "Blower" truck used to suck out waste from the mine |
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| Mounts (tailings) from opal mining accross the plains |
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| The Breakaways |
1 comment:
Only Australia could have towns like this. I like the rabbit mound analogy.
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