FIND OPAL IN COOBER PEDY Day 45 & 46 SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Coober Pedy Is an unusual town in northern outback South Australia. About eight hundred and fifty km (526 mi) north of Adelaide on the Stuart Highway. Coober Pedy is well known for its underground homes, called "dugouts". Residents live in these to avoid the extreme daytime heat and cold nights.
Opal mining is why Coober Pedy exists. The majority of townspeople live underground. The name Coober Pedy comes from the aboriginal translation “white fella’s hole in the ground”.
I purchased a cut stone the size of a hand with an opal seam running through it. Purchased from Jim a miner of 51 years. Jim has mined opal around Coober Pedy for much of his life. Owner of, The Big Miner tourist shop. Jim is a real outback oldtimer.
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DRIVE ALICE SPRINGS - COOBER PEDY
LIVING UNDERGROUND TV STORY UK
COOL DOWN WITH A WAFFLE CONE
& A POCKETFULL OF GEMS
UNDERGROUND BUILDINGS
LARGE UNDERGROUND HOME & STORE
MAN CAVE POOL TABLE QUITE LITERALLY
UNDERGROUND IN A CAVE
VIEW OPAL MINE &
UNGERGROUND HOME
FIRST TREE IN COOBER PEDY
Coober Pedy, a place of no trees
