We left Mildura on Friday morning, crossing the Murray and drove towards Broken Hill. We stopped at Wentworth, about 30 kms from Mildura to see the confluence of the Darling and Murray. The Darling is muddy and the Murray is supposed to be clear but it isn’t at the moment because of the flood waters. It was about 10 degrees but was was blowing an icy wind.
From there, we drove on a little further to see the Perry Sandhills. These sandhills are just in the middle of ‘normal’ land. They have similar origins to Mungo and have also found bones of early animals there too. There is a large gum tree, named God, where the trunk is buried so you walk among the canopy.
From there we drove north pushed along by the wind, to Broken Hill. The land was low (< 50m above sea level most of the way) with low scrubs. We saw a few goats and a couple of emus.
We spent our day in Broken Hill visiting more art galleries and interesting sites. But we started off the day at the local coffee shop, The Silly Goat, where I had poached eggs on prosciutto and kale chips on a fried muffin and hollandaise sauce. They are trendy in the silver city.
One of the galleries we visited was Jack Absolom’s. He was there and he is a cranky old (89) bloke. He reckons anyone can paint you just have to work at it. We also visited a site where some Turks attacked a train full of picnickers on New Years Day. Some people died.
Today, we drove east until we reached Cobar.