Happy underground in Coober Pedy

BROWN SNAKE VANESSA SWERVED TO MISS - ISN'T SHE NICE (IT MAKES UP FOR THE FINCH SHE DROVE INTO)




Coober Pedy was the next stop – another opal mining town (This town supplies 85% of the world’s opals) where everyone lives underground, was never cool in school but is happy underground.



We decided to camp underground this time and set up our mattresses in a camping space before we explored the town. Tourism here is either mine tours or opal shopping so we decided to have a look at the desert cave hotel, the underground Serbian orthodox church and the catholic church.



We then headed off towards the nearby rock formations called the ‘Breakaways’ this was a great find that we didn’t know existed until we were told by the underground camp accommodation. The Breakaways are rock formations dating back 80 million years and the photos don’t do them justice. Included are the moon plain and the dog formation (It is a sacred area for the local indigenous people who used the area to teach the young men the ways of the world before opal was discovered around the 1840’s.


Big John’s pizza was on the menu for dinner – coat of arms after an underground tour mine where we learnt how to use two sticks to find water or opal. Watch out, we can get rich now with the use of two copper rods….

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