Woke up again today to another beautiful day. Packed up a picnic lunch and headed for Silverton, an old mining town about 32 kilometres from Broken Hill. Silverton was first settled in 1885 the population at that time was around 3000. It now boasts of population of about 37 and is enjoying a new lease of life as a tourist attraction with quite a few art galleries and a pub. Silverton has been featured in a number of films and commercials, including Mad Max. One of the Mad Max cars is a permanent fixture outside the hotel. We had a walk around all the ruins and around the galleries. Graham had a beer in the pub. Then we went to the lookout, you will see from the pictures there was not much to see from the lookout the landscape is very arid. We then drove to the Umberumerka Reservoir which was built in 1911 to supply water to the Broken Hill mines.
When we got back to Broken Hill we had a drive around the CBD. We went to the Silver City Art Centre . This is the home of the worlds largest painting on canvas "The Big Picture". This picture is 100 metres long and over 12 metres high and painted with nine tonne of paint. It took over 2 years to complete. The painting features natural and man made landmarks within 300km of Broken Hill. Unfortunately we were not allowed to use the camera but even if we had of I don't think we would have done the picture justice. It was quite incredible.
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| Part of The Big Picture - Downloaded of the Internet |
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| One of the cars from the Mad Max Movie |
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| Silverton Hotel |
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| "Scenic Lookout" |
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| Catholic Church |
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| VW parked outside of one of the houses nice paintwork |
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| School House |
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