Today we went on a bus tour around Coober Pedy. We saw several under ground churches. We also saw the golf course. The golf course is all dust but the putting green is black, sand and sump oil. The golfers carry around a piece of turf to hit their next shot off. Cooper Pedy golf club is one of the only golf clubs to have reciprocal rights with Saint Andrews golf club in Scotland! As well we went to the opal mines and an under ground house. At the opal mines they have machines called noodling machines. Noodling is where they look through what some one else has already mined and find opals that they may have missed. You can make around 1 to 2 thousand dollars a week from noodling. The underground house was actually just like a normal house inside, except that the walls are sort of rough. Underground houses would be good to live in, I think, because they are fire safe and they are dark so they are good for sleeping. We also saw the dog fence. It was built to keep the dingos out of sheep grazing country down south. It goes for over 5000 kms and over QLD, SA and WA
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