Lightning Ridge is an interesting place with a wide and varied community. We found out that there are four self-guided tours, they are red, blue, yellow and green car door tours. To start this adventure you drop into the tourist info centre and pay $1.00 for a map that includes all of them, you then jump in your car and follow the numbered directions for each one. All doors are colour coded and numbered. On the red tour we came across Amigo's Castle. Story goes he came from Italy and wound up in Lightning Ridge, applied for a claim to mine for opals and started to build his house out of iron stone. Because it was so unique in design it soon became a tourist attraction and he got fed up with people nosing around his house and stopped building it. All these tours wind through the various mining camps and it gives you an insight as to how these people live. On the yellow tour it takes you to a corrugated iron church that was built for the movie "Goddess of 1967" a movie that I don't think was a classic. To finish things off on the Castlereagh Highway is 18 metre tall statue called Stanley the Emu, he is made from all recycled material including a VW Bug.
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| The Luna Landscape |
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| Hundreds of holes (Mines) covered with a single piece of mesh. |
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| No we did not go in |
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| This guy was standing guard |
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| The Church |
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| Another dunny |
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| Stanley |
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