Thursday, Mar 31, 2005 at 08:39
Michael - you mean tips on what to do on the Ridge?
No#1) do the "red door" tour (self-drive) and go see the "Black Queen" bottle house. My folks-in-law Gale and Roger Collins own it and it's a great little house to see. They run a tour and have a lot of their antique oil lamps on display. There are two bottle houses on the Ridge - the other one is on the main drag, and is now a little dilapidated.
No#2) try your hand at finding some opal at the visitor's centre as you come in to town. They have mines around the area contribute 4 buckets each of un-sorted tailings each day - and dump them at the visitor's centre for people to poke about in. Jenny and I found five reasonably good opals in 20 minutes of scratching around.
No#3) Go and have a sit in the
bore baths. 42 dec celcius - very nice. Just down the road from the Black Queen on the tarmac road.
No#4) You should have been there last week because they had the annual goat races on - what a hoot! Wild goats pulling sulkys down the main street.
No#5) Take a blanket - it's getting nice and cool at night there.
No#6) Tighten your load - the road in is getting pretty rough at 110kmh, and the camber is almost increasing weekly. We almost lost our trailer off to the side as the road camber dips away 6 full inches just off the centreline :) Let's just say it needs some work...
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