Coober Pedy Day 2 8/11/2010
November 8th 2010 Coober Pedy comes from an aboriginal way of describing the dugouts the miners lived in "kupa Piti" - white mans hollow.
This is a wild bit of Australia!!
Took to the air today to fly over Lake Eyre.
First we did a fly over Coober Pedy so that our view to the "mullock" hills were fascinating. The small excavated mine sites looked like an ants entrance. The opal deposit runs for about 70km an
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