Broken Hill and Silverton

 Thursday 17 September

After picking up material from the Information Centre, we headed up to Broken Earth Café. This café has been built high up on top of a tailings heap opposite the centre of town. Amazing views over the city. There is also a memorial to the miners up here which is a very fitting tribute to those who lost their lives in the mines. We sat poring over our brochures, planning our day over a lovely cup of coffee.






The memorial lists all who have lost their lives in the mines

More development is underway on another part of the mullock heap

Looking down across the old part of the city and beyond
Miners Memorial from below

Broken Earth Cafe

Then we headed out to Silverton. A ghost mining town, and lunch in the Silverton Hotel.

This town and the area around it have seen many film crews, the most famous of which were the Mad Max films. There’s a museum to these films here adding to the already interesting collection of historic buildings from the time when Silverton was a prosperous silver mining town.















Lots of interesting art work inside the information centre

The main bar, Silverton Hotel



A welcome beer on a very hot day


It was a very hot day so it was appropriate to have a beer with our counter lunch.

A short drive further out of town we visited Mundi Mundi Lookout. Luckily we had the place to ourselves. The view from here is astonishing and really hits home how vast this country is. We looked out over the Mundi Mundi Plains which stretch flat to the horizon.




After a brief respite and cup of tea back at our accommodation we headed for the Sculpture Symposium. Sadly the weather was coming in and we had quite a heavy downpour while we were there. We did manage to have a short sit down with our wine and nibbles to look at the incredible views. No fabulous sunset photos with the sculptures though. We picked up pizza on our way home to have in house with another glass of wine.





the most famous sculpture. The sun sets and shines directly through the hole.
Some use it for other fun photos




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