Here we see the home of the somewhat disreputable Crocodile Harry, whose luridly-decorated cavern is a tribute to its owner s glory days wrestling crocodiles. It is an obligatory stop for all the tour buses and backpackers old bombs on their way around Australia. Every traveller in Australia appears to be passing throght the opal-mining town where some of the inhabitants live in excavated mining tunnels. However, most people in Coober Pedy live above ground.
Some inhabitants make a living at small-scale opal mining.
Most seem to be making a living off the tourists that come to look at the wild and rowdy miners, who blow up strangers, the police and each other with dynamite. Consequently, the wild and rowdy miners are scarce commodities these days. If there once was something original about Coober Pedy, it's long since gone. Now it is like a Disneyland with miners instead of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. The wildest town in Australia is not that wild anymore.