Blogs from New South Wales, Australia, Oceania - page 16

I'm feeling a bit sleepless so take the opportunity to read up on the history of Broken Hill. The hills in which the town now sits were apparently impeding the progress of explorer Charles Sturt when he passed through here in 1844, so he called them the Barrier Range. He thought that one of them looked a bit "broken", hence the town’s name. There go all my theories about mining doing the breaking. It is good to note however that the hill that looked broken then looks even more so now; it's apparently been completely mined away. The town itself was established in 1883 by a Mr Charles Rasp, a German immigrant, after he discovered minerals which eventually proved to be the largest and richest silver and lead ore bodies on the entire planet. Mr Rasp ... read more

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With a cold front blowing in from Antarctica having scuppered my plans for one final week-long trek in the mountains of Victoria, I had been forced to acknowledge that autumn had well and truly arrived in this part of Australia and it was time to start heading north. "No worries", I thought to myself, "there are plenty of adventures to keep me going over the border in New South Wales". That was until I finally got around to checking the NSW National Parks website, at which point the full extent of the state's recent spate of natural disasters became all too apparent. Blue Mountains? Most trails still closed from the bushfires of the summer BEFORE last. Yuraygir NP? Sections of the coastal trail and numerous campgrounds closed from a combination of fire and flood damage. Myall ... read more

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Day 5 (8/4/21)Temps: Max 27C, Min 15C Waited in the van all day, not knowing when the auto electrician might get here. Went in the heated pool mid afternoon, enjoying the relief from the warm temperatures. Put a marinated Pork roast in the Weber at 330, then received a call from the auto electrician saying he would arrive in 20 minutes. It took him from 420 to 530 to swap the chargers over & solder the wires in. In the meantime, the roast pork, potatoes & carrots were all over cooked. It was too dark to test the charger, but switched to battery overnight & would wait for the sun to come up in the morning. Day 6 (9/4/2021)Temps: Max 23C, Min 9C Woke up to light rain & dark clouds. After a while the sun ... read more