You are dealing with a split personality here on this website. One half is Barbara McCondra, writer, lecturer, a kind of opal evangelist, and cyber vendor. The other half is Eskimo Nell, opal miner and adventure hound. You can’t always tell which one is doing the talking but both are opal afflicted, I mean addicted. Yes, there are those who like opal and buy opal and wear opal, bless them. But then there are those, like both of my split selves, who have let opal grab hold of them and changed their lives forever. The fever burns in their eyes. They live breathe and speak of nothing but opal and the opal life. The amazing opal life, and that opal fever that forever burns within the day to day living of it, is what I, I mean WE (Eskimo Nell and Barbara McCondra) want to share with you on this website. Sure, I also need to earn a quid to help finance my continued adventures and fevered quest for opal. So opal stones, rough, specimens, jewelry, and books will be offered here for sale. I have done much writing over the years to boost the opal industry and the tourism to Australia and was pleased to do so. There was a time many years ago when only I and one other, an Australian, sold opal on the newly blossoming Internet. The cyber industry is alive and well in the opal fields of outback Australia today with thousands of people selling opal on the Net. This site wants to stand out once again from the beautiful but highly commercialized “others”. Therefore, my mission statement (note that is Barbara talking as Nell never would say “mission statement”) to my cyber readers/customers is that this site hopes to better spread the opal word, opal knowledge, opal life adventures, and opal appreciation. And by doing that kindle the fires of opal passion as we opal addicts always have a need to see the opal circle grow. It is secondary that an opal supply is also made available to you.
check out opal and my books for sale at www.outbackgems.com
