LAST OF THE HOLIDAY PICS

Here is the last of some of our favourite pics from our holiday ...






These old buildings are at Silverton ... the ghost town about 25klm out of Broken Hill. There are 2 art galleries, a cafe, a museum (in the old jail) and the pub; which all still operate purely on tourism trade.


As you can see these two old "V-Dubs" parked out the front of the art gallery have been turned into art works with these gorgeous abstract type emus painted on them ... and ...


to make it even more interesting ...
apparantly with vegemite!!? Now


that's unique.


Inside the gallery they had these gorgeous life like statues of the abstract emus which I really loved but the price tag soon cured that!
We visited the little cafe which is in one of the old mud brick type buildings and had morning tea ... big home made scones with jam & cream, yummy scrummy!!
Then down to the old jail which had been turned into museum with lots of history about the area ... just the usual, lots of old stuff but pretty interesting.


Probably the most intriguing was the pub! Silverton is where the Mad Max movies were made and the car is parked out the front. We visited the pub, had a look around and had a drink out in the beer garden ... it actually felt like a movie prop! The pub walls are lined with photos taken whilst Mad Max was being filmed, the TV Series "A Town Like Alice" and numerous other commercial which have been made there.
The props such us the large signage on the pub giving it the different names it has been called
during filming now line roof under the beer garden verandah. All these things make it very unique and a great place to visit.

The photos taken of us with 'all that red dirt' are at Mundi Mundi Plains. This is approx another 10-15klms past Silverton (further away from Broken Hill) and is where the tar road ends ... basically it is the start of the desert!

Same thing quite a novelty to experience something so different.

I have to say though, by the time we left I was totally over red dirt & flies ... unbelievable.
I truly loved the experience of visiting such places but basically I have summed it up to my friends like
this ....
Definately great places that everyone should visit once in a lifetime ... then you can say "been there, done that"!

Have a great week,

JULIE x