Australia Ridge Castle, Lightning Ridge, New South Wales

Experience the life of an outback opal miner in this truly unique and quirky castle in Lightning Ridge.

Be there before Dawn with a tripod

Drive all the way through Lightning Ridge until you come to a T intersection, turn RIGHT (Gem St). You will drive over a couple of speed humps past the local Pool/s and come to crossroads.
Turn LEFT (Pandora St). Roughly 700m up this road you will see a turn to the right with a Red Car Door with a #1 on it – turn right here (the sign is on the right hand side of the road, a little bit off the road).
This road is ROUGH so please take your time. Drive up the hill a couple of hundreds metres and take the next left at Red Car Door #3.
Follow this around to the left (it’s basically a big cul de-sac). There’s large potholes and other bumps along this road so please take care!
You’ll go past some camps (people’s houses) and a little house made of bottles and stone and then you’ll come to the Ridge Castle (at the end of the cul de-sac). We are at Red door number 4.