We were greeted with sheets of rain
this morning and wondered if we were adventurous enough to leave the
warm and cosy caravan and continue our adventures.
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The rain started in the early hours turning the red dust into
red mud |
Disaster struck soon after when Trev
was passing the camera to me and WE dropped it onto concrete...notice
neither of us is taking the full blame for this but we both knew it
would be a very expensive accident! The camera did not work, the lens
would not open and an error message was all that showed.
At that stage I thought the only
solution was to buy another camera...
Fortunately we found a camera shop in
the main street and Anthony Adams the owner. The news was not good
but he did have a trick that may or may not work if we were prepared
to do it.
As we had nothing to lose agreed to
let him “man handle” the camera and luckily it worked!
We were really blessed by him and his
willingness to try something different and thankful we have our
little camera to use for the rest of our trip. Anthony did not charge
us for this service so if anyone reading this comes to Broken Hill
please go to his shop if you need to.
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| Anthony the camera magician |
So after some important birthday
shopping we headed west towards Silverton along a road with 39 dips
and many floodways. We drove past another gorgeous vista of outback
country, I could never have imagine just how beautiful this country
would be and am so glad we came up here.
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39 Dips
A little like a roller coaster |
Silverton is called a classic outback
town that was once a mining hub and is now an interesting little place with few buildings, mainly
galleries and the historic pub. We went to a couple of the galleries
and just took in the ambiance and history
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| two lonely old deserted churches |
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Cowz Gallery
We met Justin Cowley and enjoyed his unique work |
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Beyond 39 Dips Gallery
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Seemed to be a preoccupation with
the outback Dunny |
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| And again |
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Gallery closed but loved the VW
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| Most of the traffic in the area was at the pub |
We saw the Mad Max museum and the
Horizon Gallery which were sadly closed so maybe we need to return
someday.
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| Mad Max |
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| Horizon Gallery |
We returned to Broken Hill again loving the red earth country we were driving through.
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| Stone cottage...if only the walls could talk |
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| Amazing colours |
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