Campfire at sunset

Another Opal town - Coober Pedy and surrounds

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May 6th 2017
It’s not called the Nullabor out here, but it should be in my view. I have never seen such a “treeless” landscape, even when I drove the Nullabor on my way to the West a couple of years ago. I’m in opal country again … but Coober Pedy is a very tidy “opal” town by comparison to others I’ve seen. Perhaps it’s just that it is more commercial given that it sits on the one and onl ... read more

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more