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Lightning Ridge Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Lightning Ridge, Australia
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Ridgee Didge, Lightning Ridge
This is a top pick! ... continuing our exploration of inland New South Wales and we couldn’t wait to arrive at our next destination... Highlights of Lightning Ridge: - Grawin Club in the Scrub ...
Strike a light....
... good but the scenery can be monotonous, it does change but takes a few hundred Kms to really change... We'd heard about Lightning Ridge and the name sounded interesting so we went... it's very much like Coober Pedy, desolate landscape with lots ...
Day 35 - Lightning Ridge
Headed down from St George this morning to Lightning Ridge. The country remains to be green and lush. Not what we expected. We thought it would be really barren. There are areas of cropping right outside the Ridge. They have had over 30 inches of rain ...
Goondiwindi to Lightning Ridge
... were grazing on the side of the road.......What do you think, a Big Mac or two is some those cows? We made it to Lightning Ridge and I think someone forgot to tell them that it is winter - it is really warm here, around mid 20's. Well off to ...
Dubbo to Lightning Ridge
... but no water at this stage. Fuel $43.70 Walgett, the entire town had caged windows and doors. It looked terrible. Arrived at Lightning Ridge at lunchtime. it is a small caravan Pk but lovely people .We decided on an ensuite site and it cost $72 for ...
Day 36 - Lightning Ridge
... the normal legal processes!!! For dinner we headed down to the Bowling Club. According to 'Peter' it is the second biggest club in Australia (or was that NSW?). We had a meal for $11 a head and two drinks cost less than $8. Great value! What we saved on ...
Day 306-310 Lightning Ridge
... to hear an interview with a couple who have returned from a trip Around Oz with their young son. They talk about Lightning Ridge being a highlight of their trip and the lawlessness of the area. Apparently it’s in relation to opal mining claims etc. ...
Lightning Ridge
4 Days in Lightning Ridge - this place really has a buzz about it. Cool in the evenings but t-shirt weather by noon. You forget that it is currently the middle of winter, it is so warm. However, the humidity during summer can be a killer according to the ...
Red Dirt
Lightning Ridge is really very dusty with red dust everywhere. we had a good look around. it is not a place I would like to stay for long, but I enjoyed what we saw, And to see how the opal miners live. It is a rough ...
Get Your Own Drillingrig for Opals in Australia
This is where you find Mick's Drilling for Opals in Australia and Lightning Ridge,NSW.Plenty of info and photos from the business.Call me or send an email if you want to use the services for yur own miningoperation. Visit Mick's Drilling. CYA in ...
Black Opal Country...
Headed off from St George down the Castlereagh Hwy towards Lightning Ridge. Just out of town and they have a sign on the highway by the roadworks flashing 'road closed - water over road in 60km'. We called up on the radio to find out where etc as we ...
Lightning Ridge here we come!
... insisting on first class, it was great!) through pretty country side to Dubbo, once there we changed to a bus for 4 hours to Lightning Ridge. This is a small mining town and has one main street really...we walked single file with our luggage to the hotel ...
How stupid can 2 people be?
... source of black Opal in the world.So on the fourth day of driving we were eventually there.The best thing we discovered about lightning g Ridge was the famous Bore Baths. There is a natural spring in the middle of the town and they have made public baths ...
Lightning Ridge here we come!
... (12hours) first by train for 6 hours through pretty country side to Dubbo, once there we changed to a bus for 4 hours to Lightning Ridge. This is a small mining town and has one main street really...we walked single file with our luggage to the hotel ...
Searching for Opals in Lightning Ridge
We were woken by Ted's Bugle this morning at about 7.30 and had time for a shower (one hot bucket of water from the pub and one cold!) before visiting the small shop at the Glengarry whose proceeds go to local fire, rescue and health services. Here we ...
Noodling
... about $50 - $100. We finished off the day with another relaxing soak in the Artesian Baths. We were planning to leave Lightning Ridge tomorrow but while sitting outside the van having a beer Carl noted that it was our Anniversary tomorrow. I didn't ...
On our way
... 3 degs. Too cold for me. Had a lovely mothers day with all the kids phone. Day 3 - Arrived at Lightning Ridge. Did a "do it yourself"tour - (cost $1.00 for the information). Not a lot to see. ...
Lightning Ridge
... and southern approaches to Galargambone have lots of great Galahs made out of corrogated iron. We arrived in Lightning Ridge about 4.30pm. Our first stop was the Visitors Information Centre where a very helpful lady gave us some ...
Our Anniversary
Woke up today to a bottle of Moet that Carl had snuck into the Cruiser when he packed for the trip. It was an absolutely beautiful day today – blue skies, about 25c so we sat outside the van and drank our champagne. Then ...
Cocoon
... a couple of opal shops and displays and then did a few car door tours today. There are four "Car Door Tours" in Lightning Ridge. These are self guided tours where you stop at a series of old car doors painted a particular colour and numbered. Each ...
Back to home again.
So after my very slow 2 weeks at Tamworth, and a brief stopover in Dubbo, Bel and I headed back to the Ridge. I still had over a month to wait until my next locum job, so we decided to get out and do some wwoofing, and set up a gig in Broken Head, ...
Digging for Opal
We have come to spend a few days with Dad in Lightning Ridge. Tim wanted to try his luck at digging for Opal today. So we drove to Dad's mine. Today was the first time that I have ever been down the mine. Usually my fear of heights kicks in when I step ...
Home sweet home.
Headed off to the Ridge to spend time with my parents and generally pass the time until Tamworth. Mum celebrated her 50th birthday on the 17th, and the whole family made it which was amazing. Much revelry was had by all, the champagne flowed ...
Another great day
... where we bought a coffee at Muddy Waters Cafe...great spot with the most fantastic 'old stuff' beautifully displayed. Then off to Lightning Ridge for a hot bore bath, most relaxing, most draining. Then off to a free campsite. Here we found one van ...
Biggest producer of opals in Oz
Went through Walgett on the way, and found it a scary place with its grills and shuttered windows on all the stores, and this was during the day. The pub had barbed wire enclosures. We didn't stay long. The road to LR just opened the afternoon ...
Lightning Ridge
We left Forbes today heading to lightning ridge had we known what the day would bring we might have stayed in bed. We had had a fairly good day driving but just when you think things are fine bang, there goes a tyre on the caravan and we were about ...
Noodling
... the people are so scattered, so reclusive, so plain unwilling to be counted. The estimate is around 2800 The attractions in Lightning Ridge are cleverly marked out, it's colour coded with painted car doors. the green car door trail leads you to the ...
Opals and hot tubs!
... stays that way!!!! The block was lovely but we still rated the showers in Alice Springs as the best for us in Australia!!! Lightning Ridge has an awesome Artesian Bath just over the road from the caravan park so even though the outside temp was only ...
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