Day 93 Sunday 17th September

We had a great day out! It started with the Lightning Ridge Markets…we didn’t’ really find anything to buy to bring home. After coffee we headed out to the “3 Pubs in the Scrub”. These pubs are located in the middle of the Grawin Opal fields. The roads out were pretty rough but it was worth the 70km drive out. Our first stop was the “Grawin Club in the Scrub”. It was the golf club. We arrived around 11.30am and this place was buzzing, full of locals and tourists. It was the club’s AGM so we figured that would have contributed to the numbers. It was all run by volunteers and we stopped and had a drink as well as a good look around. This club had been made using cypress pine logs as the white-ants don’t attack this timber. From here we drove a little further past numerous opal shafts and more dwellings and stopped for lunch at the “Glengarry Hilton”. Another interesting pub with just 2 people running the bar and kitchen. We both enjoyed our lunch and it was a credit to them that we could have such nice “pub meals” in the middle of nowhere. We continued on to the last of the pubs “The Sheepyard Inn” where we had to have another drink of course! The opal fields out this way were similar to those near Lightning Ridge with all sorts of weird dwellings, shafts all over the place and abandoned cars, trucks and mining machinery everywhere. We finished the day off with a visit to a spot to view the sunset. This spot was called Nettletons and was where the first opal shaft in Lightning Ridge was dug by Charles Nettleton in 1902. It also had a quirky beer can and bottle house that we visited.




























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  1. pferorsSeptember 17, 2017 at 9:13 PM

    rip robbie looks like helen is farewell ing you on that forst photo

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  2. pferorsSeptember 17, 2017 at 9:14 PM

    rip robbie looks like helen is farewell ing you on that forst photo

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