"There must be something in the (bore) water at Lightning Ridge that brings out the eccentric in everyone. Or maybe it's just that normal rules don't seem to apply in this place where weird and wacky is commonplace. Whatever the reason, there's no denying that the opal mining town in outback NSW has more than its fair share of the quirky and kooky and more dreamers and schemers than just about anywhere else.
It's the type of place that attracts people who seem more comfortable in a hole in the ground than above it, who build homes out of empty beer cans and bottles, spend a lifetime building magnificent roofless castles stone by stone or erecting crazy crenulated concrete monuments to dead astronomers and call themselves the second Robinson Crusoe..."
http://www.smh.com.au/travel/big-dreams ... -rtmt.html
