I think I mentioned this in another thread: land in Alberta is too expensive! Those are all very cool links and ideas. Mountains idea sounds like a great team building exercise if you had somewhere to put it.
I'd love to check out that underground town but I'd only be able to go out at night or else I'd die of heat stroke! I get uncomfortable at 32 centigrade lol.
Dangphool, I'd be an icypole in winter over there.....we usually only get down to about -1C here in winter and everyone complains about how cold it is!
Russell Coight....outback legend
Susannah,
Is Cooper Pedy (South Australia), near Alice Springs. Sorry my direct memory of place names in Aus is limited. I seem to recall a place near Alice Springs that had a lot of sub-terrain homes. And if my memory is not failing me today, I believe they were in Opal country, too.
Being resourceful and using what you have at hand will make the difference between making it or not. If we in Western part of Canada had access to Opal laden hills to mine by hand and live in, I am sure some of us would.
Also, our cold comes in two varieties - wet cold on the coasts - rarely colder than say -10C in the Southern areas and a dry cold, experienced in the interior - here the numbers look scary - like -30C, -40C even -50C. But if you dress in layers the dry cold is not too bad. I, personally dislike the wet cold. -1 to -10C is not really cold enough for a parka, but the cold passes through lighter jackets and goes to the bone. I will take -30 and blowing snow over -1 and wet slushy rain/snow.
Just my thoughts.
Mountainman.
Very good Mountainman - yes, Cooper Pedy is only about 600 kms from Alice Springs and you are correct about the opals there as well.
Russell Coight....outback legend