Washing, work and exploring the Ridge

Finally got a huge load of washing done this morning - since our inverter broke a while back I haven’t done any for at least 10 days.

Meanwhile Gadi helped out on the station planting trees and moving sand. We ate lunch and then made our way into town where we had a look at the John Murray art gallery and did a couple of the ‘car door’ tours - basically a self drive tour of interesting sights around and beyond town.

On one we got to explore the vast opal fields where miners still live in shanty like humpies and old caravans, searching for the elusive gold of the area (known as black opal), found only in Lightning Ridge.

We also got to see some of the Ridge’s quirky sights such as the bottle house (made almost entirely of glass bottles), the beer can house and the half built castle.

Late afternoon we made our way back to our new home and Gadi tried, with limited success, to get his satellite dish working, and I prepped our dinner - eye fillet with baked potato and pumpkin and some garlic bread - to be cooked in the Weber of course.

Another day done and dusted for us. We are now cosied uo in our little home on wheels and ready to unwind from what ended up quite a busy day.

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