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Broken Hill is a fascinating
town. Like an artificial oasis it is situated in the vast semi desert lands of Western New
South Wales. Unfortunately due to circumstances beyond our control this was the only
photograph we were able to take at the time. The main centre has quite a few lovely parks and
gardens and a very interesting main centre. There are various art galleries which include the
work of Pro Hart and Jack Absalom. Although this town is very close to the true out-back it is
really worth the effort to get there. There are many interesting places including magnificent
scenery, Mootwingee National Park, Aboriginal rock art and stencils, Silverton Goal, fishing
and camping at Menindee Lakes which supplies water to the town and is part a storage scheme on the
Darling River. Inspection of the Royal Flying Doctor Service, Muslem Mosque in Buck
Street, built by the Afgan Community in (1891). Multiculturalism is not a new thing it has
always always always been a feature of Australia.
This is a very historic town and we could go on and on forever, but this is an images site not a
history site about the opening up of Australia. Just go there you will love it. One
interesting little bit of gossip about this town is that many years ago a certain artist who will
remain nameless thought it would be a good idea to paint Ayers Rock now named Uluru. The paint was
going to be placed in drums then loaded into a helicopter and the paint tipped out from the drums
while flying over Uluru. Don't know what the colour scheme was going to be. How times
change. Nowadays you wouldn't even be allowed to have a joke about this. In fact I may
even be thrown in goal for mentioning it here. No fun and games downunder in OZ anymore (sniff
sniff)
But heck we like to live dangerously 
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