22nd November - 24th November 2009 Coober Pedy Coober Pedy is not much to look at on the surface. You do have the thought run through your head, 'who the hell would want to live out here'? It's not till you get underground that you really see how beautiful it is. Above ground it is dry, grey, treeless, grassless, boring and bleak. Underground it is magical. Coober Pedy is an opal mining town, it is the largest producer of opal in the world. The outskirts of town are full of mined opal fields, evidence of these opal mines is in the large dirt mounds that litter the landscape or 'moonscape' as it is often referred too. As you drive around you come across 'Danger' signs, warning you not to go for alittle wander around or you
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