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Menindee Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Menindee, Australia
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Seen Mitten im Sandmeer
... in den NP, sondern fahren zum Copi Hollow CP, wo wir einen tollen Standplatz mit Sicht auf den Verbindungssee zwischen Lake Menindee und Lake Pamamaroo ergattern können. Eins ist sicher: ohne diese Seen hätte sich die Fahrt nach Menindee nie ...
Around Menindee
... chat with some people who showed us their van and of course Cheryl fell in love with it. Maybe in the future? Hit the Menindee tourist office and would you believe they had a quilt show on, Cheryl was impressed, Russell was more taken with old typewriters ...
You can't get better than this for August
We woke this morning to a beautiful sunny clear sky.... how wonderful! started the day doing our washing.... yes, in a camping twin tub we bought.... so for all those that thought we wouldn't... we did! We then set off for a bike ride to the sailing club ...
Magical Menindee Lakes
... 1870 and used paddle steamers from Menindee to send out the wool. It became one of the biggest sheep stations in Australia functioning up to the 1960's, shearing their 6 millionth sheep in 1967 when the station became a national park.. ...
Kinchega National Park, Menindee
Thought a nice night by the Menindee Lakes in Kinchega National Parks might be nice. HA! Turns out the lakes have been dry as a bone for over 10 years (despite us seeing fantastically full and lovely looking lakes just up the river from ...
Lakes, rain and a small disappointment or two.
... . Then it was into Broken Hill for a look around, top up of vegies and get some fuel. Thence down to the National Park at Menindee. This is a lake that had been dry for years so we were looking forward to it. Once at the lakes we read the information. As ...
peaceful Menindee
... relaxed. Tough day but someone has to do it. In the afternoon Ma & Pa looked at the Historic Wool Shed & around Menindee town. Jay & Braiden went to collect fire wood. When Ma & Pa arrived back at camp dad drove me down to the Main ...
Day 31 - Menindee, Kinchega Nat Pk, Menindee Lakes
... for a wander around. Once we were ready to go, we hit the road.....or dust to be precise. Firstly, we headed in to Menindee to get coffee, I thought I saw a Coffex sign yesterday whilst doing our recce of Menindee. We drove around a bit and couldn't find ...
enjoyed the experience
... better.... patches of blue sky had started to appear. All packed down we headed off for hour 5 -6 hour drive to Menindee Lakes. We were grateful that the kangaroo deterrents were working on the car... as we approached live stock they seemed to hear ...
Day 30 - Anabranch to Broken Hill and Menindee
... via Copi Hollow. When I saw a turnoff to a small observation point I had to have a look. Like so many of Australia's great water schemes (snowy hydro, Murray-Darling), I am totally fascinated by it. Basically, originally all these lakes only filled up ...
Pooncarie to Menindee travels
... service station, so went in the oppposite way and filled the Nissan right up. Wentworth is a town on the Junction of the Australia's two great rivers, the Darling & Murray, so we had a picnic lunch in a nice park right at the junction. Afterwards ...
More water than Sydney Harbour
It's hard to believe that the lake is 80 klm wide. I didn't get a photo on my tablet but Sandy got many on her camera. We forgot to bring the lead to download them so we will update them when we get home. We were blown away with the ...
Broken Hill to Bindara via Menindee Lakes
... . The fishermen and birds are in abundance for the fish. We drive to the Weir No. 1 and what we thought would take us to Menindee. It was a massive spillway and was the major weir for the Darling River. The water was up and over the road and blocked off. ...
Wilcannia
Fixed water tank on caravan (bypassed tap completely) and refilled with water in Wilcannia. Despite reports of aboriginal problems it didn't seem like a bad ...
Magnificent Menindee
... along the dirt road our caravan plug for our electricals loosened & broke off so we were without tail lights. (Luckily at Menindee we could purchase a new one at the petrol station. Inside the caravan the light had shook loose & the light ...
Menindee Lakes
... I eventually made it to Menindee Lake which is famous for the Menindee seedless grapes that we all enjoy. Most recently Menindee Lake was newsworthy because it was in drought for 15 years and people left the area to try and make a living ...
Lights, Camera, Action!!
Silverton is 30 minutes out of Broken Hill and is known as Hollywood in the Desert! It's this gorgeous ghost town with red dirt, ruins, an old jail, world famous art galleries, a random donkey, camel riding and a wicked pub. ...
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