Weather forecast for today was possible thunder storm. So much for that, it started to rain in the night and hasn't stopped since. Luckily most of the water is going around the tent. We have decided to stay another day and sit it out. The other Ulyssians camped next to us have decided to do the same so we are in the camp kitchen having a rest day. All the forecasts for tomorrow say it will be fine, here's hoping. Yesterday we continued our looking around with a...

Today Dave and I travelled 2-up on Dave's bike (yes I was a big chook again not wanting to ride 26km return trip of uncertain dirt road!) to see an old silver mine near Silverton. The Daydream Silver mine is 20km from Broken Hill and operated from 1882 to 1897. It was a fascinating tour....the dryest dustiest countryside, with this old underground mine which was worked by about 150 Cornish miners in its day. These little men were called "cousin Jacks" and they mu...

After leaving Wilpena we thought about stopping a couple of nights in Peterborough but the pull of the ROCKS was too much and we continued on through to Broken Hill. The trip from Peterborough to Broken Hill was as boring as bat s***. Made the Nullabor look like a scenic road. No pain no gain! Found a great caravan park ( campers kitchen no where near the standard that we have become accustom to ) and have settled in for at least 5 nights. We have started to...