Wednesday the 6th of July 2022 – Broken Hill, New South Wales

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Broken Hill from the Miner’s Memorial

From Bunnerungee Bridge we travelled up to Broken Hill, the start of the Outback in Australia. We’re staying at the racecourse about 5 K’s out of the centre of Broken Hill for 3 days. We have 3 days in Broken Hill and the surrounding areas. Broken Hill is reputed to be the start of the Aussie outback and I can’t dispute that.

The Miners Memorial (sits on the mine tailings way above the township).
The Place Hotel. This is were Priscilla, the Queen of the Desert was filmed. If you remember the movie, they wanted to do a lap of the main drag in drag!
The iconic stairway up to the hotel rooms captured in the movie.
Outside Pro Hart’s gallery in Broken Hill

We visited pro Hart’s gallery and I for one enjoyed it immensely. He had a very distinctive style and highlighted the issues the miners had to face in many of his paintings, which I supposed is easy to understand as he was a miner for 10 years himself.

One of Pro’s Rolls Royces that he drove around town in. Hand painted of course!
Our van is parked right on the finish line at the St Patricks Race Course. We wake up to the horses doing their early morning training runs.
Main Street of Broken Hill

I expected Broken Hill to be very similar to Mt Isa but its very different, maybe because its been around for longer than Mt Isa. It’s unique in its own way but then again the “Big Australian” BHP started here from such humble beginnings over 140 years ago.

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