Tuesday 24th, January

We left Silverton this morning after Mal had the pleasure of actually showering in the rain. He took his soap and enjoyed washing under one of their rare rain storms. We visited Pro Hart’s Gallery in Broken Hill. What a great artist he was. We then drove from Broken Hill to a small “Ghost Town” called Terowie in South Australia.

In the early 1900’s it was a busy town as it was on the main train line. This train line closed in 1960, and the many incredible buildings shut up, as happened right throughout Australia, including Wilcannia as earlier mentioned. These buildings still stand in memory of these times. The only people we have met are a young Lebanese couple running the fuel stop. Tonight we are camped next to the old train station with the buildings still standing.

It is now evening, 9pm and still very light, and we have no water. We have run dry….thanks Mal….no cup of tea, no shower, no toilet (lucky we have a shovel), no clean the teeth (I will use his beer for that…??????). Lucky we have plenty of bottled water, but really???

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monday 23rd January….

We arrived in Broken Hill yesterday to just under 40 degree temperatures, after spending 10 hours driving from Warren near Cobar. Silverton Hotel and a cold beer looked good.We traveled over 700kms so did well. Mal got very excited whenever we went around the very rare bend. We “rock and rolled” all the way to music from Mossy, Barnsey and INXS just to name a few. Mal looked like “cheap wine and a 3 day growth” by the time we got there. He just needed the wine. We had to stop to chase emus, goats and horses off the road a few times. We had slept in a paddock on the side of the road the night before and it was amazing. We went to sleep under the gums to the sound of the lambs bleating. Beautiful!!

Spent last night and tonight camping at the historic town of Silverton. We could stay longer but want to head down to Menindee Lake tomorrow night (about 120kms from Broken Hill.)