Lightning Ridge (tho I would have spelt it with an 'e' in Lightening so good job I just uploaded that photo of the welcome sign hey) - a small town with a lot of holes in the ground and signs saying 'Warning: you are about to enter an area of intense opal mining' followed by warnings about watching your kids and big holes. Just to prove to Jude how dangerous those holes are and why he couldn't run to the top of every mound of dirt he sees (and man there are a lot...

Broken Hill and Beyond Well another month or more and finally I am updating my blog. As you can tell from the title we have finally left South Australia although we are still on SA time – not for much longer, tomorrow we head into the far flung reaches of NSW to see what there is to discover and one day in the not too distant future we will make it back into Queensland and back to our original itinerary (what there was of one). So what has kept us occupied fo...