Yellow Car Door Tour

Today we followed the Yellow Car Door Tour out towards …

We checked out the Big Opal Mine and jewellery store. Here we braved the self-guided mine tour which was interesting but left a lot to be desired in terms of safety - the rusty spiral staircase down was just the start!

We also check out Lunatic Lookout

Miners Cottages - Made of stone from an earlier era.

Chambers of the Black Hand - Fantastic carvings on the walls of an old mine. Many people reckon this is the BEST tour in Lightning Ridge!

Australian Opal Centre (AOC) - 2-storey-in-the-ground building

Abandoned Mine Shafts - See them spotted around everywhere with fences around them.

Black Opal Heritage Shed - Associated with the AOC

Graveyard of Rusty Treasures - An assortment of vintage trucks and cars

Lunatic Lookout - Check out the surrounding sights and air vents that go down to the mines. Site of the world’s largest black opal nobody ever found, called “Halley’s Comet”.

Movie Set - The corrugated iron church was purpose-built for the movie The Goddess of 1967, which was filmed in 2000.

Stanley the Emu - At the Castlereagh Highway, turn left until you see 18 m tall “Stanley the Emu,” constructed out of recycled materials.Read more