Coober Pedy in South Australia has a treeless, desolate landscape marked with piles of dirt where opals have been mined. People live in dwellings carved out of the sandstone to escape from the heat and exposed landscape. Worth a visit! Interesting tour at Umoona museum to learn how opals are mined and the atmospheric Serbian Orthodox Church dug out of rock.
Flat, desolate, hot Coober Pedy
Little piles of dirt resulting from the opal mines
Umoona museum shop
Small amount of opal left in the rock
Umoona Museum
Umoona museum shop
Umoona Museum
Umoona Museum
Umoona Musuem – example of hand dug room
Umoona Museum
Serbian Orthodox Church
Serbian Orthodox Church, Coober Pedy