Broken Hill to Mildura

After consulting google maps I decided on the back road today. It looked more interesting than the Silver City highway but it did add 100kms to the day.

But first it was a visit to the top of the massive slag heap which overlooks Broken Hill and a visit to the very impressive miners memorial.

I think there must have been about 1000 memorial plaques with name, age and cause of death. Lots of falls and crushing injuries but also many many lung related illnesses, especially in the earlier years. Hopefully with better awareness and ppe this is now a thing of the past.

We then set off on our adventure ride and it turned out to be a treat. A lovely road winding through a desert landscape, I don’t know why but I’m drawn to this type of environment, some people look and see nothing, but I see a visual kalaidescope of colour and shapes and find it really beautiful.

Most of the day was like that, in places there was more scrub in places.

Dust storm in the distance.

We came to a series of massive lakes, some seem to joined together by man made canals. We pulled off the road to see one where it joined this really massive lake and the flow was controlled by a dam and spillway.

We had lunch in a little cafe in Menindee beside the Darling river.

Then back on the bike to Mildura for another night in this nice town.

Kangaroo was on the menu so I had to have it as I don’t see it offered much at home.

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