The Fun Bus

Chambers of the Black Hand was a Yellow Car Door stop, so we continued along the track at the end of the tour.   

(The temptation of the underground shop was too much for Vaughan, so he and I headed back to the surface before anyone else).

Brian's "Fun Bus" camp was adjacent the Lunatic Hill open cut.  He had lived at Lightning Ridge for 45 years.  His blue eyes twinkled as he confessed he'd been saving the current claim for his retirement - and decided at age 82 "that he should get on with digging"!

One hundred million dollars had been taken from the nearby open cut but Brian hadn't dug much of value.  We enjoyed chatting though and he laughed hugely when he heard of Vaughan's excavations in the middle of the Lorne Station driveway!