Quoting David Mann <[email protected]>:
On Feb 12, 2015, at 8:30 pm, Brian Walters <[email protected]> wrote:
Quoting David Mann <[email protected]>:
Pencil it in for next time ;) I'd like to go out that way again but
take a bit longer and do some exploring. I read that they're
changing the rail timetable this year to include an excursion to
Coober Pedy which is a place I'd like to visit.
Coober Pedy is certainly worth a visit but you'd probably need more
than a couple of hours on an excursion to fully appreciate it. If
there's still a frontier town in Australia, Coober Pedy is a prime
candidate. We stayed a couple of nights in one of the underground
motel rooms. An interesting experience, especially when you turned
off the lights at night - I've never seen dark so dark!
Because of the extreme summer heat, lots of things are underground
there - not just the opal mines - even a bookshop and a church.
Here's a not very good photo of one of the churches:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1370864/catacomb-church.jpg
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Cheers
Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
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