Day 16: Coober Pedy (Day 1)

Our first full day in Coober Pedy. We spent the morning wandering around the opal shops and checking out the quirky street art around town. On the way home we stopped by the large public noodling area where we spent an hour or so digging through the large mounds of debris looking for opals. Sadly we did not find much.

Then in the afternoon we toured the Old Timers Mine. It was a self guided tour through an old opal mine followed by several rooms of a house that the previous owners of the mine lived in. To watch the sunset we drove up to the "Big Winch" and its attached cafe for drinks and NY Times puzzles while the sun set over the dessert.