What a town. 1600 inhabitants, 35 nationalities and 66% live underground. Everywhere you see mining equipment and opal shops, lot of junk and no green. But there’s something magic about this place that catches your heart. We love it. Not surprising how George Miller came up with the ideas to the Mad Max movies here. We explore the town.
A lot of junk has been turned into art and many pieces seem to have a soul.
We try some noodling and even find some stones but have no idea if we are successful. What does opal actually look like exactly?
We visit a kangaroo sanctuary…
See the first underground church, a Serbian orthodox church.
We even find some original “Krapfen” (jam donuts) in an Indian run bakery. Yummy!