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 old-timer.

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COOBER PEDY

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DRIVE ALICE SPRINGS - COOBER PEDY

LIVING UNDERGROUND TV STORY UK

COOBER PEDY SUNRISE

COOL UNDERGROUND

BIG JIM OPAL MINE & SHOP

COOL DOWN WITH A WAFFLE CONE

& A POCKETFULL OF GEMS

UNDERGROUND BUILDINGS

PURCHASED OPAL

LARGE UNDERGROUND HOME & STORE

MAN MADE TREES IN COOBER PEDY

EARLY MORNING TOWN LIGHTS

SNAKE DEN

UNDERGROUND MOTEL ROOM

MAN CAVE POOL TABLE QUITE LITERALLY

UNDERGROUND IN A CAVE

VIEW OPAL MINE &

UNGERGROUND HOME

COOBER PEDY DRIVEIN

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FIRST TREE IN COOBER PEDY

Coober Pedy, a place of no trees

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