Broken Hill

We spent a day having a look around Broken Hill and surrounds.  It is a town embedded in a bleak landscape with road kill and scavenging birds being one of the features of the drive in. 

 

The town is full of old houses from an era past.  Many have corrugated iron walls and seem to be out of the 19th Century.

The backdrop to the whole town is the huge mullock heap of tailings pulled out of the mine.  We had a look at one of the old towers and went to the Visitor Centre on top of the mullock heap.

Back near Silverton we saw the Mundi Mundi Lookout over the huge flat plane where locals assured us you could see the curvature of the earth! (You couldn't)

Then it was back to the Silverton Hotel for a drink.

In the evening we went back to the Mundi Mundi Lookout to see the sunset (which was beautiful as promised).  We shared the location with a film crew who were setting up for some scenes in an upcoming movie.

The next couple of days will be occupied getting back to Melbourne as fast as we can.  It is a price you have to pay for some magical scenery in this country.