A Long Weekend in Outback, NSW: Lightning Ridge

Highlights

• Learn the shining history of this mining town 
• Fossick for your own black opals in a working mine 
• Take a dip in the two-million-year-old thermal Artesian bore baths 
• Lunch with the quirky mining community at the Grawin ‘Club in the Scrub’ 
• Discover a sandstone gallery 11 metres underground 
• Browse local jewellery shops for the ultimate souvenir