Cobar to Silverton

A looooong drive today (504.4km) through flat flat land and a “straight dead” road. We really only passed through one main town on the way, Wilcannia, where we got self serve diesel with rabid dogs circling (not really). Then lots more flat straight and dead till we reached Broken Hill (the hill we thought was ‘broken’ was actually just a mining site) and 20 minutes beyond that, Silverton. Lots of dips in the road (finally) and rain, rain. Our campsite is the Silverton Camel Farm, onboarding included only two pieces of important information, and three sticks: watch out for the territorial emu (hence the sticks) and the shoe-stealing dog. Tomorrow we will explore where they filmed Mad Max (where we are staying) and go for a pub meal in Broken Hill. Hopefully this campsite looks less like a rubbish tip when it’s not drizzling and muddy!🤞🏼☀️

PS forgot to mention, we crossed a time zone! That makes this official.

A fair few oversized trucks with police convoys.

Driving into the site, BEFORE we had received the important aggro emu information.

Delightful setting up in the rain, Mitch deeply loved this experience, yep!

Luckily we have awesome friends in our neighbours, the Marinos-Cowells, who delivered pasta for dinner!

Morning visitation. Mitch won the showdown (stick not shown).

Handily Lux has claimed the couch as her bed so we get a bed each!

For real camels outside our tents. Lux advises us they can spit (she is the resident animal expert).

So here’s a tour of our campsite / cinematic rubbish tip.

The Line of Lode reference became clearer to me later that day.

Lots and lots of different animals including ducks, geese, llamas, goats, emus (obviously), camels (obviously), calves, dogs, etc.

📍Wilyakali/Wiljaali Country

3 responses to “Cobar to Silverton”

Michelle

July 4, 2023

Sending love from Kev and I. What a great adventure!

LikeLiked by 1 person

1. angelaalicebennetts
  
  July 4, 2023
  
  🧡🧡🧡
  
  LikeLike
  
Joe

July 7, 2023

Loving the blog updates!
Cool captions La!
More quotes from Mitchy please! 😁

LikeLiked by 1 person