Broken Hill

We spent a couple of days at Broken Hill, looking around the town, going up on the mullock heap where there is a miners memorial to all the miners that have died in the area. The exhibit listed the miner’s names, date and cause of death. It highlighted how hazardous the occupation was in the early years. We also had a trip out to Silverton which is about 30klm out of Broken Hill, the Mad Max movie was filmed out there and there are numerous vehicles that were featured in the film scattered about the township. We also checked out the Heritage Museum that is located in the old Silverton Goal which had an impressive amount of items from the past exhibited. Back in Broken Hill we had a cultural experience visiting Pro Hart’s Gallery. There are four Rolls Royce vehicles that he owned displayed outside, one had been painted in the true Pro Hart style.
Monday we said goodbye to Sharmon, Jack, Vicki, Peter, Lyn & Wayne they were heading off in the direction of Petersborough on their adventure to Lake Eyre & beyond, it had been great travelling with them, will miss their company & the drinks around the camp fires. We headed out in the opposite direction on our way to Bourke, we had thought we would stay overnight at Cobar but changed our minds 60klm east of Cobar & spend the night at a roadside stop. We enjoyed a happy hour with a fellow Tasmanian whom we had met earlier in the day at a rest stop, just happens that he was known to me as he used to come into the Rosny branch of the Credit Union.
Today we arrived at Bourke around lunch time, so we were able to spend the afternoon checking out the town and surrounds. We went out to the local cemetery where Fred Hollows is buried, and looked at many of the early grave sites. It was very depressing seeing many graves of infants and young children also the early settlers didn’t reach a very old age.
Tomorrow we intend to travel to Lightening Ridge.