Being A Part Of The Underground Scene

Whilst on another road trip from Alice Springs to Adelaide we stopped off for a night in a place called Coober Pedy. With a population of roughly 3500 this whole town is founded on the opal mining industry. Yawwwwn, a little boring I know. Here's the science bit. Because it's so hot everybody lives in underground caves. Our hostel room was 6.5 metres straight down. how cool is that? A lot cooler than the 50 degree temperatures up top. I've seen this place on TV a number of times. Billy Connelly came to visit and I'll plat piss if it hasn't been on Blue Peter. So it was good to finally be here.

The place itself was a bit weird. It looked a touch like in 'Tremors,' if you've ever seen that quality film. If not, why not? Infact, it's been used as a setting for many films, namely 'Mad Max 3: Beyond The Thunderdome' which I'm pretty sure you all wasted two hours of your life watching.

Whilst wombling about in the hotel I met a really cool guy called Peter. Peter told me he'd been here a while after causing a spot of bother with some Yank dude. I wasn't really paying much attention, but here's a picture of him.

The only reason we were here was to stay in the caves. Novelty value innit? The next morning we found we had the day to kill. Unfortunately, the day nearly killed us. Talk about boring. I'd honeslty rather die than live in a place like this. Sorry, that's a bit morbid. I'd rather be in a coma than live in a place like this. Luckily the cricket was on. Can't remember the score...oh yeah, we won!