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Around Broken Hill
We got a self drive tour map from the information centre and proceeded to do the self drive tour of Broken Hill. The highlights were: 1.Kimtare Reserve at the beginning of the drive. This is an interesting insight into the mining culture; the head from the Kimtare Mine is worth a good look. 2.Joe Keenan…
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Broken Hill and the real outback
We headed to Broken Hill on the Silver City highway. About six kilometres from town, we turned off to look at the Peeri Sands. This collection of sand dunes are brilliant colours, reds and browns. This is a few hectares of dunes in the middle of nowhere. Almost no traffic was heading our way as…
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A drink in Wentworth
Much of the same long straight road to start, we stopped for Ali to take some photos before continuing on to Wentworth. On the way to Wentworth we drove into a town called Mildura, we decided our trip was a bit tight to stop and look around this time through. We arrived in Wentworth mid…
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Hay is a good stopping point
The further we went west from Wagga Wagga we drove the straighter roads got, until they became very long and flat plains, these plains are irrigated by the Murrumbidgee river as it runs from the Snowy mountains, passed our city of Canberra and joins with the Murray River. I have been told that Murrumbidgee means…