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Published: 2010-05-21 04:40:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 1393; Favourites: 43; Downloads: 0
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Whats a coober you may ask? well i have no idea but Coober Pedy is some place located in the middle of no-where surrounded by small mountains... they look like mountains spreading to the horizon as you approach but are no more than a bunch of mullock heaps from trucks like this. "Opal capital of the world".Another angle [link]
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Love your image, it almost makes me miss the place, almost.
I lived in Coober Pedy 6 years ago, and the truck was painted in the Crows colours, ( Adelaide Crows is a Aussie Rules football team) then the Power won the Grand Final, (Port Adelaide) so after many years of Crows colours they repainted it as you see above. These two teams are the only South Australian teams in Aussie football, so when ever they win a grand final its taken very serious in Coober Pedy.
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Oh cool! would be a pretty interesting place to live in, did you live underground there?
Just found a pic of the truck in the Crows colours [link] definitely looks better black
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yea, in what the locals call a dug out, nicer than it sounds.
your image is sooooooooo much better.
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Wonderfully interesting place... went there when I was 13... many moons ago
Awesome shot... the colours are so vivid!
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Theres nothing quite like it... something you don't forget anyway
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well, it was 32 years ago and I still remember that place so vividly!
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Great photo! I just love all the bits of discarded custom-made mining vehicles around Coober Pedy!
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Thanks! Oh yes
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So funny!^^
Opal capital...* * my favourite stone!!* *
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Oh there were some nice ones... most expensive one i spotted was $7000
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I love Australia. You capture the colours and the scene rather well.
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Oh me too! I only hope i get to see it all some time
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How bizarre. What's the thing on the back of the lorry? Is it a pump and funnel of some sort?
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Its like a bucket used to remove the dirt in all the shafts people dig...
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Ah another uninhabitable place i'd like to check out
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haha but makes for a shweeet pic, keep it up
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A Coober Pedy is evidently an early prototype of a jacked-up monster truck involving the use of wooden stilts.
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Well thanks for alluding me to that and clearing things up
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