Coober Pedy is an opal-mining town straight out of the 18th century wild west. A place where fortunes are hunted and (usually) lost, where suspicion overrides any concept of 'love thy neighbour' and where huge, duck taped and soldered mechanical monstrosities dominate the surround mineshaft littered countryside. The temperature bakes, the dust blown up from underground exploration chokes and the local dialect simply confuses. Spending every daylight hour underground has clearly taken it's toll on the local psyche, stories of stolen horses, stolen riches and planted waste are commonplace. Possibly the only new development in recent memory has been that of a bomb proof Police Station, owing to the fact that the last three were blown up! Fascinating place.
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