Transcript of “Noodling for Opals”
Grant, earlier we were talking about the term fossick, meaning to hunt for gemstones.
And I forgot to mention the term noodling, which is used quite commonly in Australia to refer specifically to sifting through dirt looking for opals, noodling. What is it with the Australians in these terms for digging through dirt?
Well, I think they have a lot of gemstones, particularly in Queensland. Nobody’s sure where that comes from. It might come from the British sense of noodle, meaning to fool around, or it might have to do with nodule.
Oh, noodling for nodules. Got it.
But noodling and fossicking, that’s what we do on the show, right?
And bandicooting.
And bandicooting.
