AWESOME FUN IN COOBER PEDY

NO TRICK PHOTOGRPHY HERE...ZIGGY IS JUST A FREAK SHOW AT THE COOBER PEDY SKATE PARK..PLAIN AND SIMPLE!!!

ONE OF MY FAVOURITES...SIMPLY BECAUSE THE TYRE MARKS ARE STILL THERE...WHAT THE????

GETTING ARTY NOW....OUT ON THE SALT FLATS OF LAKE HEART.

THE SIGN SAYS IT ALL!!!

ANYONE FOR A SPOT OF AFTERNOON GOLF ON THE FRONT LAWN...????? OR SHOULD I JUST SAY OUT THE FRONT. JUST ONE OF COOBER PEDYS PAST TIMES.

AND OF COURSE...DINNER WOULDNT BE COMPLETE WITHOUT A BREAD ROLL MADE WITH LOVE!!!

AH....NOW WERE GETTING DOWN AND DIRTY...REALLY...INTO AN OLD MINE SHAFT . THIS IS JUST FOR US TOURISTS TO LET US KNOW WHERE THE SHAFTS ARE....THE OTHER GAZILLION OPAL SHAFTS HAVE ONLY A MOUND OF DIRT TO WARN YOU OF POSSIBLE IMMENENT DEATH SHOULD YOU HAPPEN TO COME ACROSS ONE.

 IF YOUR LOOKING UP AND SEEING THIS, YOU HAVE EITHER DIED AND NEED TO GO THE LIGHT ....OR...YOUR INSIDE AN OPAL SHAFT...WE WENT WITH THE LATTER.

""WERE GOIN DOWN.......WAY WAY DOWN.....TO THE UNDERGROUND.."..WHOEVER WROTE THAT SONG MUST HAVE BEEN A MINER.

KEEP DIGGIN KIDZ...PS..ZIGGY AND STARZ HAD JUST HAD THEIR FACES PAINTED, THUS THE SKELETON LOOK. PRETTY APPROPRIATE FOR WHERE WE WERE THOUGH.

THIS IS THE WONDERFUL,TALENTED AND VERY BEAUTIFUL ELISSA AND HER SON ZAC! ELISSA IS A GOOD FRIEND FROM YEARS AGO AND RESIDES IN COOBER PEDY NOW...LUCKY FOR US. ELISSA ,ROWIE AND ZAC ARE WHO WE ARE STAYING WITH HERE AND LISSY HAS HER MINERS LICENCE AND WORKS AT THE BEST OPAL MINE-SHOP IN TOWN..UMOONA! SO TO SAY WE ARE GETTING SPOILT ROTTEN WOULD BE AN UNDERSTATEMENT.

THE MULLOCK HEAPS. BESIDE EVERY MOUND OF DIRT THERE LIES AN OPAL SHAFT. THERE ARE THOUSANDS.

CHEER UP STARZ.

THIS IS AN OLD SORTING MACHINE. LOTS OF PEOPLE STILL USE THEM.

GOTTA LOVE THE CAR!!!

GETTING ARTY AGAIN...LOVIN MY CAMERA.

HOORAY...OUR VERY FIRST FOSSIL FIND....NO...IM NOT TALKING ABOUT THE FOSSIL WITH THE BUM CRACK...HAHAHA..THIS WAS THE FIRST OF MANY MOUNDS OF FOSSILIZED SHELLS,MUSSELS AND PIPIS WE FOUND. THANX TO ROWIE .....OUR INSIDE SOURCE. LOVE YOU ROWIE.

THE LOCALS

PICNIC LUNCH IN AN OLD DRY CREEK BED ....LUVIN IT!!!REALLY DOIN IT TOUGH NOW..HA!

THIS IS ROWIE.......AND THIS IS THE PETRIFIED TREE JUTTING OUT INTO THIS OLD CREEK BED THAT I STUMBLED UPON. IT WAS TRULY AMAZING TO SEE A TREE TURNED TO STONE.OMG. THANX AGAIN ROWIE... WILL TALK YOU UP IN MY NEXT BLOG POST.

AND FINALLY...HAD TO END THE BLOG WITH YET ANOTHER LOVE. AM SO PUTTING TOGETHER A BOOK OF LOVE HEART SHAPED EVERYTHINGS,,,PEACE,JOY,LOVE AND FOSSILS.XXX