On Feb 13, 2015, at 1:11 pm, Brian Walters <[email protected]> wrote:
> Coober Pedy is certainly worth a visit but you'd probably need more than a > couple of hours on an excursion to fully appreciate it. If there's still a > frontier town in Australia, Coober Pedy is a prime candidate. We stayed a > couple of nights in one of the underground motel rooms. An interesting > experience, especially when you turned off the lights at night - I've never > seen dark so dark! > > Because of the extreme summer heat, lots of things are underground there - > not just the opal mines - even a bookshop and a church. > > Here's a not very good photo of one of the churches: > > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1370864/catacomb-church.jpg Yes, the underground stuff is one of the reasons I want to visit. I'd definitely find the opal mines interesting as well. The night sky in such a remote place must be pretty good too. How do they keep the rooms from collapsing? None of the photos I've seen show any bracing. Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
