Adelaide Hills to Broken Hill

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The first day of our outback adventure, we started out from the Adelaide Hills at about 8am.

First stop on the journey was the old copper minining town of Burra, where Luke, Esther & I promptly found the Burra Bakery and put in our orders. Then Dad went in for his feed, followed by Luke going in for seconds.

All up we had:

1 sausage roll
1 meat pie
2 bushmans pies
1 kransky
2 pasties
1 apricot & walnut bun
1 custard tart
1 tropical fruit box

No wonder the laides in the bakery said it was a busy morning!

Next stop was Olary

Olary train station

July 8th 2006
Adelaide Hills to Broken Hill

, just to check the load. We saw a truck carrying some huge tires for some mining trucks, and saw the old Olary train station. You could be waiting quite a while to catch the train from here!

From Olary we headed up to Broken Hill (Australia's longest-lived mining city). On the approach to Broken Hill we encountered some goats on the road, so Luke promptly got on the two-way radio and let fellow travellers in the area know - one guy seemed particulary keen to know where they were, perhaps he was looking for some dinner?

Once at Broken Hill we visited the big seat and Luke stocked up on some West End Draught. Diesel set us back $1.44/litre. From there we headed north about 60km and found a nice dry creekbed to camp at between Paringa & Sturts Meadows.

Distrance travelled: 609km.

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Photos

Olary
Watch out for all of those schoolkids in Olary