Yeah, kinda wish we'd stayed a bit longer - asked at the front desk but apparently the motel was fully booked for the following days after we were due to check out, but we did have more places to be...
@@DropTableAdventures yeah filled with history! even that steel tree looks good, and upon doing some research on opal mining, I guess those mounds in the intro (before 0m10s) are from the opal mining?
Yeah, those are the opal fields as seen on the way in, and those piles of dirt are what came out of the ground. If they're no longer in an active lease, some pick through them to find opals that have been missed.
Fascinating town! And it was really interesting to learn a bit more about opal mining.
Yeah, kinda wish we'd stayed a bit longer - asked at the front desk but apparently the motel was fully booked for the following days after we were due to check out, but we did have more places to be...
@@DropTableAdventures yeah filled with history! even that steel tree looks good, and upon doing some research on opal mining, I guess those mounds in the intro (before 0m10s) are from the opal mining?
Yeah, those are the opal fields as seen on the way in, and those piles of dirt are what came out of the ground. If they're no longer in an active lease, some pick through them to find opals that have been missed.