What an interesting place Coober Pedy is! The town is built around opal mine fields and does not have a lot of structure to it. There's a bit here and a bit there.....and it appears that people do not take much pride in the appearance of their property looking from the outside. It seems okay to have junk in your front yard and mullock heaps that are just left as mounds across the landscape. We spent the day wandering around town looking at Opal shops and we visited the Old Timers Underground Mine to learn a little about opal mining. We wanted to buy a piece of aboriginal art to remember our holiday and we saw many, many paintings that we liked that also had a nice price tag on them. The first night we were in Coober Pedy we went to a gallery that also acted as an orphanage for kangaroos and we watched a man hand feeding a couple of kangaroos and a joey that he was taking care of. In the gallery was a lovely aboriginal man called " Tommy Crow " that was painting some of his designs. We watched him for a little while and got a nice feel from him. He played the didgeridoo like no one I have ever heard before and we left suitably impressed by him.So we decided to return the following day to purchase one of his original paintings and he was kind enough to pose for a photo with us. We particularly liked his design as we have seen so many beautiful sunsets on our trip that we thought it appropriate to purchase some of his work.
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