Weekly Photo Challenge: Down

Looking down at the hole in Kimberley where they mined diamonds for hundreds of years. 150 years ago, the site of the Big Hole was a featureless, flat-topped hill. When word spread that diamonds had been discovered, thousands of prospectors, armed with nothing more than more than picks, shovels and hope, descended on Kimberley and created the largest hand-dug excavation in the world.