Days 19 & 20, 28 & 29/5/2016 Saturday & Sunday Lightning Ridge, clear cold and windy The boys go out to get papers but are told to wait because the truck has only just left Walgett. Sometimes we need to … Continue reading Like a Rollingstone, Days 19 & 20 – Relaxing at the Ridge
Day 18 Friday 27/5/2016, Lightning Ridge, clear but cool This morning we decide to walk into to town, about a kilometre and a half each way. With no reason for the walk we find ourselves in the John Murray art … Continue reading Like a Rollingstone, Day 18 – Ridge Racing
Day 17 26/5/2016, Lightning Ridge, cold windy wet It’s too bloody miserable to leave our vans. Thunder rumbles and the sky is an ugly cobalt yet little rain falls. Suffering cabin fever we venture out in the afternoon and take … Continue reading Like a Rollingstone, Day 17 – Chambers of the Black Hand
Day 16, 25/5/2016, Lightning Ridge, Sunny Two out of three ain’t bad There’s another opal field about 60kms from The Ridge and it is home to 3 iconic pubs. We set off in a convoy of 3 cars down a … Continue reading Like a Rollingstone, Day 16 – The Grawin Opal Fields
Day 15, 24/5/2016, Lightning Ridge, Cold It got down to 5 degrees overnight and I had packed the winter Doona away yesterday, bugger! There’s a shop in town called Mr Cheap and he advertises that he sells everything that a … Continue reading Like a Rollingstone, Day 15 – Taking a Car Door Tour
Day 14, 23/5/2016, Monday, Walgett to Lightning Ridge, Hot 27 After a peaceful night it is wonderful to wake up and see the river outside the window. It has to be the best thing about free camping. VeeWee has forsaken … Continue reading Like a Rollingstone, Day 14 – Falling for Lightning Ridge
July 2019, Lightning Ridge, NSW Lounging around Lightning Ridge Quite possibly the best attractions in town are the “Three pubs in the scrub” which is a drive out to the Grawin opal fields and its iconic pubs , the “Car Door tours” which entails following the trails of coloured car doors hanging from trees to see the sights of the town and the “Chambers of the Black Hand” a hand hewn underground art gallery like no other. Having got down and dirty noodling for opal and enjoying these tours on our previous visit this time we’re here just for a … Continue reading Lounging in Lightning Ridge
Day 5, Thursday 18/7/2019 Lightning Ridge 8 – 18 A lay day lie in, aah heaven. We potter about and do a few chores, like filling the water tanks as we’ve got two freedom camps ahead of us. We buy a new bucket in town as the holey one is of little use, unless we want to call it a basket that is. Lightning Ridge is a funny town that you either love or hate and we love it, so much so that three years ago we spent a week here. It is best described as semi desert as little … Continue reading Follow the Sun Day 5 – Lightning Ridge
May 2016, Near Lightning Ridge, NSW The Grawin Opalfields is a short drive from Lightning Ridge (about 80kms) and well worth the visit for the pubs and the humour. If you are a fossicker there are public dumps available to noodlers. Need an explanation? Well the professional opal miners dump their unwanted tailings at a public dump. Amateur fossickers must never trespass on mine sites but they may fossick or noodle at these public dumps. Read the signs carefully and only noodle where it is specifically allowed. Fossickers do find small pieces of opal at these places. I have no … Continue reading Noodling at Grawin Opalfields
In Lightning Ridge we take orders for fish & chips only to find out that they’re out of fish! No Saturday papers until noon, “the truck’s only just left Walgett.” Continue reading You know you’re in the bush when…
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