Our Lightning Ridge Trip, Part Two
Day Four. This was the day we were supposed to go to Garwin and see the opal fields there, but Lightning Ridge was going to be without power on day five, so we swapped days. This was a fun morning as we got to go underground in two different mines. The first one was an easy entrance, down 30 steps and a loop once inside. The sandstone is pink and our guide explained the different processes to find and extract the opal. Not my best photo but the hard hat kept falling onto my glasses. Pretty in Pink. One of the walls. I didn't spend to long underground as it was warm and I had my cardigan on. Wasn't as scary as I thought it would be. We had a wander around the top and watched a video of the history of the area, while others did the tour. Our next stop was the Chambers of the Black Hand, this was 40 feet underground and accessed by 84 steps or a small lift. I picked the lift and it was very interesting going down as it was a cage and you could see the wall. This mine had ...