Coober Pedy

Interesting but scenic wise - bland with many, many piles of dirt as far as you can see. Mining for opals, they don't have to back fill their mining shafts, you need a licence and machinery and stuff though. We did a tour of the town and 'The Breakaways'.

Coober Pedy town

You can't mine in the town boundaries anymore, but if you want to build a house, you can keep your opal that you find! It has a pretty big golf course, but this is the 'green', its sand with sump oil. You also carry around a swatch of turf to tee off.

Golf  'green'

The many piles of tailings

Open cut mine

Underground house

Approx 2/3 of Coober Pedy live in underground houses, the aboriginals wont because of the spirts in the ground. Coober Pedy actually means whiteman burrow.

Old opal mine

Dog Fence.

 I'm not sure on this, just looked like a fence not even really that high - are dingos that dumb?

'The Breakaways'