Lightning Ridge is well worth a visit - even if you’re not interested in opals! We took a few simple self-drive guided tours ‘Car Door Explorer Tours - so much to see. Here are some images from our explorations.
Very cute. Old and not so old car doors used as markers for self-driver tours. You’d have to understand that around opal mining fields cars but mainly trucks are stripped down for their driving parts to bring excavated soil to the surface plus a myriad of other uses. The doors? Who needs them! So creative these miners.
The houses are whatever people can drag here!
Bottles and cans and stones. They’re all part of the ‘village’.
Idle moments lead to a little artwork.
Cans - there are a lots consumed here in the heat!
This and the next one are the site of the new Australian Opal Centre - 2 levels underground. Clever!
Ah the Corrugated Iron church. This was purpose built for the film Goddess of 1967. Look it up! I reckon in spite of appearances, it is occupied. Why not?!
Perched over a big hole (could be a cleverly disguised entrance to a mine! Pretty rough but funny - if no one is looking?
Worth zooming in on the info board but this is an important mining site which has been preserved for historic purposes. Tells a great story!
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