You may have picked up a thread of subtext running through our journey - fossicking and opals! Starting in NE Victoria panning for gold, we swung through White Cliffs (opals) then on to Tibooburra (gold) and then propped for a bit in Lightning Ridge (opals). All very interesting places, but I have since discovered a number of other opal fields - well there had to be really, didn’t there! West of Lightning Ridge and north of Walgett is another area rich in opal - Grawin plus two adjacent fields. We took a side visit there of course - and had a coldie in the Grawin ‘Club in the Scrub’. So where are we now? Thinking opals?
Grawin (pronounced like Darwin) pub. Actually it’s a club and you have to sign in!
The opal dump at Grawin. Unfortunately NO public fossicking allowed.
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