Monday, 24 March 2014

Lighting Ridge day 2

Yellow car door explorer
We went to the Chambers of the Black Hand

Entrance into the 12 metre underground mine
Ron Canlin - sandstone sculpture he only does this as a hobby
Ron has been sculpting these sculptures for 16 years

Invisible man
Kids loved this one the best
Fantastic detail and painting


The kids had to find Where's Wally in all the sculptures we only found 14 but apparently there is 21
Ally way into even further into the mine
We went down into the lower ground mine where they search for opals, it started to get very stuffy and hot.
This church was used in the movie "Goddess of 67"

This is Stanley a 18 metre high emu made from scrap metal


We visited the 3 pubs in the scrub, which we intended on having lunch at one of them. The first pub was "The Garwin", but they don't do lunch on Monday's. 




So we drive to the next pub which was "Sheepyard" but they don't open Mondays either.



Beau had a real laugh at this sign outside pub

Last one we went to was "Glengarry Hilton". This is where we ended up eating lunch and all they had to offer was frozen pies, sausage rolls or pasties which they microwaved that was a experience.......



The road in and out of the 3 pubs in the scrub was very interesting, this was one of the signs

Lucky we had the right car for it!!!!

The bottle house in town 

Even the dog had a bottle house


The hot Artesian baths



They were so hot we can only manage to put our feet in































Sunday, 23 March 2014

Lighting Ridge day 1

On our way to Lighting Ridge we stopped into Nindigully Pub for what was meant to be the biggest hamburger called the "road train burger" to feed 4 people except the day we called in the kitchen wasn't open and they only had a BBQ for lunch.



We arrived in Lighting Ridge better known as "The Ridge".

We went on the car door explorer which is the mine explorer trials of lighting ridge.

Green car door explorer

Beer can house - this guy has been building this house for years but he hasn't got very far lately, drink up buddy!!!





Sunset lookout- views to the Coocran opal fields

Mine shaft
Deep mine shaft hole


Red car door explorer
Amigos castle-single handedly built by amigo started around 1983

Astronomers monument-begun in 1983 by "Polish Alex" every surface has a message
Black queen-winner NSW tourism award 2010
It was very hot today so we went for a swim in the local swimming pool.  It turned out to be a theme park inside we all had a ball.