Broken Hill, Australia Travel Blogs

Flinders Range NP to Broken Hill - Day 214
Sep 23, 2008 (10 photos)

... rainbows across the sky. After leaving the range I crossed into New South Wales and parked up around 35km west of Broken Hill. Another state and another time zone, forward by half an hour this time. Severe weather warnings have been issued for this ...

Broken Hill
May 30, 1992

With Denise

Broken Hill - it begins...
Jun 30, 2005 (4 photos)

A drab and misty day is slowly dawning over the massive slag heaps adjacent to the rail siding at Broken Hill station, as the Indian Pacific I'm on awaits departure for the next leg of the journey to Adelaide. It's been a long trip so far, and we won't ...

Silverton
Aug 10, 2006 (25 photos)

... area.  It had a fantastic camping ground owned by the National Trust which was open to the public.  We went back to Broken Hill packed up our gear and headed for Silverton the next day.   This place had many acres and since the kids had ...

Broken Hill
May 26, 2008 (4 photos)

Did lots today. No driving today, just the tourist thing. Started off the day by visiting the Flying Doctor base - very interesting. Didn't know the founder of the service was on our $20 note. I felt the shame! Then it was off to Silverton ...

Outback
Jan 29, 2007 (13 photos)

... After leaving Flinder's National Park, we began our trek across a small part of the outback to the once mining boom town of Broken Hill.  The first thing you see when driving into the town is the biggest graveyard you've EVER seen.  We'd guess ...

Broken Hill spiders
Aug 2, 2009 (9 photos)

... : Our next stop was at Broken Hill.  We stopped at the information centre to find out some things we could do.  Broken Hill is famous for its mining for silver, zinc and lead so there are heaps of shops selling rocks and crystals.  I've ...

Broken Hill
Aug 16, 2007

Another good days travelling with the road going by the side of a railway track for several hundred kilometers we ended up in Broken Hill. A lovely little outback town or maybe small city. That nights campsite was called the Lake View Caravan Park.

Broken Hill
Aug 5, 2006 (12 photos)

... do some tourist destinations and home schooling of course and yet catch up on the phone calls and internet/email access - yes!   Broken Hill now transformed from it's Mining of silver, lead and zinc to a bustling and vibrant modern city with a busy ...

Broken Hill and The Accessible Outback
Aug 24, 2006 (6 photos)

... , we realised that a lot of the land is owned by farmers (although the Aboriginals might say otherwise of course..) Broken Hill is a mining town and our first impressions are not great. However, there are some interesting buildings here (although we ...

Broken Hill and Silverton
Sep 11, 2008 (10 photos)

... used to be an old silver-mining town. It was booming in 1885 but in 1889 all the mines closed and everyone moved to Broken Hill leaving Silverton a ghost town. Today, it's kept alive by tourists and an odd array of art galleries - well, you wouldn't be ...

Broken Hill and the surrounding area
Jan 17, 2007 (40 photos)

... and bought the land. In 1884 they found an area 7.5km long and 250 metres wide containing pure silver. The BHP (Broken Hill Proprietary Company) was formed and went on to be Australia's biggest and most successful public company. The rest is history and ...

Piles of dirt, long trains, sculptures and plants
Aug 3, 2009 (12 photos)

... (74).  Our tour guide yesterday remarked that in the boom times there were 6,500 mine workers employed in Broken Hill.  Advanced mechanisation and computerisation has reduced this number to about 600.  Industrial safety has also improved, ...

Mad Max at the Silverton Hotel
Jun 26, 2008 (40 photos)

... hechado y el resultado no ha sido muy satisfactorio, pero estoy calentita al menos. La nueva ruta es ir directamente a Broken Hill y Silverstone y saltarnos Alice Springs y ahorrarnos asi frio y dinero, de ahi a la costa.... Silverstone es famoso por ...

Broken Memories
Jun 26, 2007 (6 photos)

... the sun but some of the others were a little difficult to interpret. Mad Max II was filmed in Silverton, a small ghost town outside Broken Hill so now we've seen two Mad Max locations, the first being Coober Pedy. The drive here goes along a pretty bad ...

Broken Hill
Mar 29, 2008 (7 photos)

... make a purchase at the local bakery - we'll provide you with the winner at the end of our 3 month trip. From Wentworth to Broken Hill it is a straight 260km drive and the view is just as flat as the road ahead.  We did however begin to think ...

Broken Hill
Mar 30, 2008 (25 photos)

... from the various movies and television series filmed in the area such as Dirty Deeds and A Town Like Alice. Returning to Broken Hill we stopped at a camel farm and Darcy and Guy, reluctantly at first, went off for a 30 minute camel ride ...

Adelaide to Broken Hill
Sep 24, 2008

... the picturesque Barossa Valley ( which we had explored on Sunday) and Clare Valley before passing through Burra and Yunta then onto Broken Hill . We are lucky to have Shaun as a travelling partner who has local knowledge of this area having grown up here. ...

A la conquete du Outback 3
Jul 2, 2008

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Farm Life
Apr 19, 2003 (6 photos)

... . Stayed 1 night in Adelaide and got the train to Broken Hill where I was going to work on a farm. Met up with Estelle in Broken Hill and stayed with her for a few day then went to the farm (which Aussies call a station). The station Borrona Downs is 4 ...

Outback
Apr 24, 2007 (6 photos)

Unser nächstes Ziel ist Broken Hill. Von Port Pirie aus muss man gar nicht weit fahren, und schon kommt das Outbackfeeling. Endlose Felder, Sheep und Caddlestations, Känguruhs und Büsche, viel mehr trifft man hier nicht an.

Indian -- Pacific Journey Part I
Mar 14, 2007

... to wannabe adventurers. We took full advantage of the A$300 price tag that allows us to visit pretty much everywhere in Australia except Queensland. The Indian Pacific goes from east coast of Sydney to the west coast of Perth a total of 4350 kilometers ...

Wine, wine, wine and the outback
Jan 22, 2004

After the Great Ocean Road it was on to the Barossa Valley where we consumed copious amounts of wine. Then we drove for ages to Broken Hill.

Silvertown
Mar 28, 2008

Broken Hill

Broken Hill 3
Dec 7, 2006

Broken Hill

The Indian Pacific - Adelaide to Sydney
May 15, 2007 (2 photos)

... do for 24 hours except stare out of the window looking for wildlife and eat. There was a little pause at a town called Broken Hill - a mining town with lots of slag heaps and not alot else. Finally, some local wildlife - Sarah saw emus and kangaroos ...

Dance Explosion
Dec 18, 2005 (50 photos)

They call it Hollywood in the Outback. Dance in the Hill!

Broken Hill Part 2
Sep 27, 2009 (16 photos)

... an extra 2 hours up to Newcastle. So needless to say it was a drainer of the day. So that concludes my 4 days in Broken Hill, overall I really enjoyed the place and the sights, I probably would only spend tops 3 days there where you would be able to see ...

Small World
May 8, 2004 (16 photos)

... more, you're considered class B. I'm the outsider. Class C - from "away" As any local will tell you. Anywhere not Broken Hill is away.  I'm living in a man's town!! (Seriously) I was glared at in the "Working Man's Pub" for being ...

Friendly
May 9, 2004 (11 photos)

It's not hard to make friends here, living in the Nurses Quarters! Wicked people are in and out every few weeks. That is the problem though. There's no real way to make a lasting friendship. First guy I met was Minh, Mihn or something spelt like that!! ( ...