We drove to Coober Pedy and set up camp. After shopping and lunch we went noodling in the public fossicking area. We found colour along the edge of the carpark area so we spent the rest of the afternoon crawling around in the dust finding, not a fortune, some nice pieces of colourful potch.
14/9/2013 Coober Pedy
Today we went to church. The Seventh-day Adventist church in Coober Pedy is in a disused mine, underground. From the surface it looks like all the rest of the landscape, but underground a comfortable worship area has been carved out.
The young minister, Pr Allan, is a Tongan, employed under the Global Mission plan.
There were 6 visitors, including us and about a dozen other people from the local community. It was an enjoyable fellowship, and a challenging worship service. In the afternoon as we walked once again we bent our eyes to the ground and searched for opal. In the evening we treated ourselves to an outing at the local pizza shop.
15/9/2013 The Breakaways
We drove out to the beautiful desert area called The Breakaways. This is the edge (sand dunes?) of the ancient sea which once covered this area. We marvelled at the varied colours of the sand hills and their weathered shapes. Down in the deep part of the sea floor we found fossils of ancient shellfish. We continued on to the dog fence which runs for almost 6000 km (it used to be 9,000 km) and then we returned through the opal fields and stopped and fossicked over some of the earth tailings for the rest of the afternoon.
16/9/2013 Coober Pedy to Glendambo
Today we had intended to leave Coober Pedy early, but after buying some supplies we had another look in the public fossicking area. Someone (possibly the council) had added another load of tailings to the carpark area so we had a look and Gerd got so involved in noodling that we didn’t leave until about 2:00pm by which time we were covered in dust and our hair felt like it had a can of talcum powder shaken through it.
We travelled to Glendambo and were very glad of a long hot shower ever though the bore water was quite hard and salty.
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