Lovely Lightning Ridge

moamajohn · Guru

Lovely Lightning Ridge

wendyv · Guru

If you have time, drive out to the Grawin and Glengarry fields and have a look round. Quite unique. We got a mud map from the Club in the Scrub, which you come to first.

AmandaJayne · Guru

lolol am so glad you are enjoying yourself.. we loved it when we were there and at the time they had their opal fair going to there were tables and tables of opals for sale... was fantastic and we have it on the list of things we want to go see again :)

Dougwe · Chief one feather

Sounds like a great place for sure John, obviously wombat has not been there to cause havoc yet.

Keep up the good reports as well.

_wombat_ · Master (of Mischief)

Dougwe wrote:
Sounds like a great place for sure John, obviously wombat has not been there to cause havoc yet.

Keep up the good reports as well.

its a great place, we have a friend there who owns a small mine, we stayed with them about 2 years ago, there is a tourist mine you can go down that the owner has mined out and he now has statue's he has carved below ground, well worth a visit.

Just outside of town heading sth there is a parking bay on your right and a toilet, now I only mention this because if you drive in the and it's dark there is a reflector that you drive up to and shine your headlights into it, it then sends your lights up to another reflector that is pointing at the dunny, so you have light to see what you are doing, no need for a torch.

You can see where I have been there are a lot of holes all over the place. biggrin

ken thomas · Guru

wendyv wrote:
If you have time, drive out to the Grawin and Glengarry fields and have a look round. Quite unique. We got a mud map from the Club in the Scrub, which you come to first.

2nd that

It is more like a mining town than lightning ridge

The only thing is you may get the car covered in white dust, but the opal has a car wash at the back

Ken

pambaz · Senior Member

Thank you Moamajohn for your info on Lightning Ridge. We are heading there in August for the first time. We were going next week but it's too cold and we need some heat so we are heading north for a few weeks. Looking forward to seeing it for ourselves.

pam

moamajohn · Guru

Hello Pam ,thank you for your compliments ,it is indeed a truly aussie place to visit, I have no doubt that you will enjoy yourselves . Cheers John.

Hallmark1 · Veteran Member

Hi John,have stayed at the Opal C/P since it opened,great park.Make sure you visit the Chamber of the Black Hand great viewing.If you want to look at some opals go to Peter Healey Opals(ex Echuca) and mention you are from Echuca area,(mention Barry) and he will show you opals that are beautifull with no option to purchase.
The concrete agitator at your introduction photo was donated by the Warhurst brothers from Echuca. So as you can see the Ridge has a few residents from our area.Have a great trip.

Cheers Baz

Wombat 280 · Guru

I really enjoyed my trip there. I like going to the local cemeteries in those old country towns the history on those head stones is just fantastic. One of the best War Memorials I've seen in a country area . The Club does turn on a great feed .