In the morning, Dad decided to get the wheel alignment on the car checked (steering wheel wasn’t straight when going in a straight line). While we waited for the car to get fixed we went to the Old Timers Mine which is an old opal mine which has been made into a museum. We were able to see opal in the rock walls and dummies that were arranged to show how they used to work. We had to wear hard hats, which was good because we all bumped our heads on the low ceilings. When we got outside we went to the “noodling” pit and looked for opals. We found many and now have lots of rocks in the caravan which is adding to our weight (we now have gold, opals, red garnet and silver).
We had great pizza for lunch (18 inch pan) and then went through many opal jewellery shops (they looked good). There was one uncut opal which was valued at $250,000, but we didn’t buy it.
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