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Published: October 26th 2008
When we first approached Coober Pedy ( white man in hole) you would swear you are arriving in to a third world country, it is dirt and more dirt and totally disorganised. Everyone has junk in their yard and machine parts everywhere. The population has dropped to 2500 since 1996 but everyone who lives here has been her for years and only stay for the hope of finding more opals. A good find can be worth 1 Million but even though there are over 4 Million holes in the ground they say they have only found 10% of the opal.
We joined a tour on day 2 of our visit which took us around the town and underground into a house and a church. We also ventured out to the Breakaways the remains of an inland sea, famous for the filming of Pricilla Queen of the Desert, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome and Pitch Black with Vin Deisel about a space prison tranportor crashing . We also saw the longest fence in the world a dog fence 5300 km long.
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Jeannine
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Hello all!!!
How are you all going!!! Wow, I spent sometime catching up on all your trips...Love the photo's...Julie you could be the next big photographer...Looks like a lot of fun. It's amazing some of the awesome places you all have been...can't wait to see some more. Well, keep trecking and I will catch up with you all soon...Love from Jeannine