Spacious van sites, combined with grass tent sites.
OPAL COUNTRY
No visit to Lightning Ridge is complete without wandering the main drag or various outlets scattered about the region to peruse the mystical forms of opal. The other‘ must do’ in the region is to delve into the depths of the earth into a dugout, either a house or a commercial establishment.
Given our limited time in The Ridge, we combined the opal and underground marvels into one, including some awe-inspiring talent, hard work and ingenuity of the underground mine at The Chambers of the Black Hand opal and sculpture tour.
Back in the 1980s, a hopeful opal miner realised he’ d chosen the wrong plot to strike his riches from the fiery stones of Mother Earth, so he swapped his attention to tourism and started his opal tours, along with the initial chipping away of his amazing carvings deep underground. Fast forward a few decades, and the carvings boast a vast array of worldly scenes, humorous and serious, with no character – real or otherwise – left out.
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