Today we planned two tours around the town....the first was a very informative tour visiting an underground Serbian Church, next we were driven past the various points of interest including the golf club....would make for interesting golf, the race course and examples of the underground homes. We finished at an old mine site which is now a tourist facility showing the history of opal mining and an early attached residence. Some of the opal jewellery is stunning. Later in the afternoon George took us to the "Breakaways"....a very unusual landform that apparently broke away from the Stuart Ranges millions of years ago. No wonder movies are shot out here that require a science fiction background as I felt we were on the moon. The weather was not the best as it was raining lightly with a lot of cloud cover so we saw it darker than normal but it was still very worthwhile. George also showed us some remnants of an ancient forest as the tree stumps have turned to stone and starting to crumble apart.....so much for climate change as every where we go we are told that this was an inland sea etc. or that the land or climate has changed significantly!!!!
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