Here I am still on the road again at the Tucson gem show. I come here not to sell or buy but to check out the opal market. The main part of the show gets going today and tomorrow so have seen only a bit of Yowah and Koroit opals at the stalls. The Queensland boulder opal blokes are complaining that the year was lean for them to produce any quantity of opal. they tell me Quilpie is flooded in and the Parroo River that you must cross to get to Yowah is rising. There are reports of much water in the Coocoran Lake around Lightning Ridge. I have heard these cries of no opal no opal many a time before. I aim to check out their validity here. It has been my experience in the past that there is always SOMEONE on opal. The key is to find out who and where they have it for sale and to get to them first! I only go to check out pricing and new discoveries or types of opal. There is a new book out this year hot off the presses. It is full of magic pictures and updated information. I will interview the publisher today and share info with you soon. Now off to the opal trenches of Tucson.