Broken Hill
Sea Topaz
Duncan Briggs
Mon 14 Mar 2011 11:09
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31.51 S 141.25 E
We are back in New South Wales; you feel like you
are in another country in some ways. You cannot get information on accommodation
etc which is in a neighboring state. Annoying.
Anyway, we managed to get a place to stay in Broken
Hill, an old miners cottage. We did the tourist thing and went up the hill with
the statues and watched the sunset. Except the sun disappeared behind a big
cloud, which mend rain overnight. This morning it still rained and the mine we
wanted to visit was closed. (They mine silver and lead here by the way). We
carried on and visited the old mining town of Silverton. Interesting, lots of
history. But then we could not go back as one of the creeks had seriously
flooded over the road. A local told us it would go down again in a few hours, so
we went back and had a cup of coffee. After about three hours we felt it was
safe to go through it with our car (four wheels drive cars had been going
through it much earlier).
We visited the old mines in town and had a look at
more historic buildings in the town. Not much atmosphere in this
one.
We are stopping one night at Menindee Lakes and
then on to Canberra.
Some of the road signs we came across
Australian road trains can be up to four
trailers
 
Statues on the hill at Broken
Hill Flooded
road stopped us going through
 The
silver mines at Broken Hill
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