Whole day at Coober Pedy today - the Opal capital of the world. Started with Old Timer's Mine, which was an old opal mine, now a tourist display. It has Opal still in the tunnel wall, tunnels showing the old mining techniques, an old underground home (now connected to the mine tunnels), and also an area where you can go noodling (searching for Opal in the old mine tailings).
In the afternoon we also looked through and underground church and then went off to Josephine's gallery, which is also a kangaroo orphanage. They take in Joey's where the mother has been hit by a car or shot. They hand rear them before releasing back to the wild.
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