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In and around Roxby Downs Holiday & Caravan Park
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Distance from park: 33.5km
See the real outback in this small opal-mining town. It’s lunar landscape developed when miners attempted to escape the extreme temperatures of the harsh environment. You can also visit Lake Torrens and Stuart Creek opal diggings.
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The Dunes Café is situated in the heart of Roxby Downs and is the perfect place for breakfast, lunch, and morning/afternoon tea.
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Distance from park: 850m
Need to cool off after a long trek around the area? Come on down to Roxby Downs Leisure centre, where there is a 16.6 metre indoor pool, an outdoor 25 metre pool and a Splashpad that offers a zero depth play space. Play squash, tennis, netball, cricket, football and soccer. You’ll find a skate park and fitness centre in the centre as well.
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The unique Andamooka Dukes Bottlehouse has been built from discarded beer bottles and is now a museum featuring displays of opal related mining equipment, opals and historical artefacts. Entry to the museum is via the Australia Post Office shop.
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Embark on the emu walk trail to catch a glimpse of the Olympic Dam Mine and learn more about Roxby Downs. The trail starts at the Visitor Centre and goes for 3km, through the community garden, over sand dunes and through nature reserves.
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The Roxby Link Art Gallery is situated in the Visitor Information Centre with locally sourced exhibitions and a variety of cultural products. The Visitor Information Centre also offers a private viewing at your leisure of a video presentation of the Olympic Dam Story and Tour Bookings can be made for the Arid Recovery Sunset Tag-a-Long tours.
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The Cinema is located next door to the Art Gallery within Roxbylink. It caters for 60 people and showcases the latest feature films, so no Roxby Downs resident misses out on the cinema experience.
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Want to know about opal mining? How to get started and where to go? How to get a claim? Good noodling spots? What’s the rules? This tour includes a look inside tue Andamooka Observatory Bookshop, German Gully Underground Opal Mine, One Tree Hill and Cal the Stonemason’s Studio.
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Distance from park: 950m
Take a guided sunset walk and learn about the delicate ecosystem that the Arid Recovery Reserve actively works to protect and restore. The tour guide will take you to explore the dunes, following animals tracks and spotting nocturnal wildlife as the sun falls from the sky. Tours are operated with proceeds going to conservation projects.