Lightning Ridge Famous ... the town has numerous opal, souvenir and art-and-craft shops. One of the most popular is The Bottle House, a mineral and mining museum in Opal St constructed of bottles ...

Cloaked in white dust and surrounded by expansive plains, the town of Lightning Ridge produces ... quickly outgrown its small showroom on the main street of town. The center holds the most diverse ...

Morilla St) or call 6829 1670. Lightning Ridge is about 770km northwest of Sydney and 50km due south of the Queensland border. The town is accessible by a fully sealed road as well as rail ...

It's a Saturday evening when a group of girls from Lightning Ridge Central School spot Peta Wykes walking in the street ... contract and now calls the town home. "I love it — I love being ...

Molyneux was not one to complain. But there were problems on the horizon for the all-volunteer Lightning Ridge Funeral Advisory Service, the town's only undertakers. Timbo Molyneaux, left ...

The Lightning ... in the main street with $5000 worth of opals secreted. "Ten lucky people are going to dig for those thousands of dollars worth of opal," she said. Ms Thorne says the town which ...