Thanks mate.
Yeah, Australia has some of the best coastline and beaches one could find...When the tide is in at Moonta it's stunning.
We saw a shaft of 309m today, still open, just fenced...A long way down. I think they try to cave them in of course. Check out a place called Coober Pedy here in South Australia. It's where opal are found. Lot's of holes, probably a few dead bodies in there too. https://www.cooberpedy.com/
We have little shafts all over. A lot of Gold and a little silver taken out of the ground around here. I've been in several of them...
There's a large abandoned mine about 20 miles from me, but it's on the bombing range so you have to have a permit from the Marines to go there. But it's pretty cool. Was active for about 50 years...
That Cooberpedy looks like my kind of place. Before I clicked I thought it might be like the old Turquoise pits around here, but that is way more organized.
I may or may not have hygraded some Idaho Opal in the Bob Marshall wild area. It may or may not have been AFTER the area was declared wild and therefore illegal to take anything out.
You think I'd take a 10 mile hike for my health?
Lol...Opal poacher...If you had liberated some of course...If.
Yep. Liberated. Sounds a lot better than stole, doesn't it?
I went with a friend that'd been there before the wilderness area. I may or may not have bought a motorcycle with the proceeds of that week. Besides having a great time...
Seems like that opal went to a good use. ✅
It did indeed.