Farewell to a great city that has everything! This has been the most amazing 4 days learning about Broken Hill and sharing the wonders of the landscapes, the red dirt and sunsets and on the other hand, marvelling at the mines, the huge machinery and above all, the sheer grit and determination of the pioneers and miners that have made it what it is.   Broken Hill has character!So off we head to White Cliffs, some 300km drive, past Sulphide St, Bromide St, Oxid...

We decided today would be our day trip to Silverton, about 30km west of Broken Hill nestled in the western hills of the Barrier Ranges. The Daydream Mine is out there and is our first stop of the day, to join the 10am above and below ground tour – taking about 1 ½ hours.Off the main road, we take a well-maintained red dirt road to the mine, opening and closing several farm gates on the way, as the road is used jointly with Seven Mile Station and although...

The Sulphide St Railway & Historic Museum didn't really enthuse us but it has history and old locos so it was on the list. A very interesting place, particularly the historic attack on a Picnic train, by Turks, that had left the station.WW1 was in its infancy on the 1st January 1915, when two Turkish patriots launched their own war in Broken Hill, and attacked a train carrying 1200 men, women and children to a picnic for the annual Manchester Unity Lodge pi...

Back to Wentworth then on the road to Broken Hill. Plains, plains and more plains.   Long, long straight roads with a lot of kangaroos dead.   The crows flocking to do the tidy up.   Feral Mum, Dad and 4 kid goats crossing in front of us. Keeps you on your toes, always scanning for roos and anything else you must avoid hitting!So many more feral goats, as we motor on, and some emus.   An awful lot of kangaroos killed on the last stretch.   Every 10 &...

Our destination today is a caravan park at Fort Courage, in NSW and on the banks of the Darling River about 25km outside of Wentworth.The route we chose took us from South Australia, into Victoria then into NSW.   Pretty cool!    Long straight roads, emus everywhere. Buggar, we had to dump fruit again as we were entering Victoria and the Sunraysia region.   So we had an all fruit breakfast, standing in the middle of nowhere, in dead silence, on a never-en...