Now we headed to the warmest pool in Lightning Ridge. This pool should be around 42degrees but felt more like 50. The first time I couldn’t get in – it was way too hot. Every one staying in the pool for around 15 minutes turned red like a lobster so everyone was 
nearly cooked. I was able to get into the pool the other day – it feels cooler in the morning – but you had to get out and cool down after 15 minutes.
As you couldn’t stay all the time in the pool we did some exploring and fossicking as well but we just found nice stones one might have a little opal layer in it. There are 4 coloured car door drives which go along the city through some opal-mining fields and one or two other attractions like the black queen (this is a kind of a restaurant where a story is told), a hand-build castle (all stones look differently), walk-in 
mine (go underground and have a look around plus their little museum), cactus nursery, a house built of bottles and where you could see beautiful sunsets or the mine “chambers of the hand” which is an old mining site with two levels; second level is where they demonstrate the mining and on the first level is their exhibition – different figures
carved in the walls (they’ve native animals of Australia, jungle animals, fairy-tales (the pipe player of Hameln), Egyptian mythology… it was amazing and really good especially as I talked to the artist while he was creating “Dora – the explorer”.
Bye, bye, Tom and Anja
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