Woke up to a beautiful morning, quick brekky and then into the huge mullock heaps noodling. Unlike White Cliffs, they mine in Andamooka with a bulldozer! They did huge trenches as long as four buses and very deep. We founds lots of gypsum again but no opals. A few drops of rain for 10 seconds.
We went back to the campsite to pack up and the wind had started. The toilet tent had blown down as had the table and chairs. Quick pack up then to the public noodling next to the playground.
Liam found his first opal within 30 seconds and then lots more J By this stage the wind was really bad but Liam persevered and found some more very nice opals.
There weren’t too many places to eat indoors and the Mobil servo didn’t start serving lunch until 12. The huuuuge man inside was pretty sure the weather was going to get worse and he was right:(
A retreat to Roxby Downs was looking good. We rang the motel and they had rooms ($140:() but its was much better than the Andamooka Hotel at $90 for a tin shed.
The sand was blowing across the road as we drove back.
The motel had a flat screen tv :) and a great shower to get rid of the dust so all was well with the world again.
Lunch at the pub was ordinary, the library was good (Adrian) ok (Liam) so back to the motel. The wind continued to get worse and it was a full-on dust storm.
Chinese for dinner; Top Gear on the tv and an early night.
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