Exploring Broken Hill & Silverton

This morning Kylie and Ben cooked us bacon and egg rolls for breakfast before we headed off to explore Silverton.

Silverton is located in the Far West outback of NSW and was built by miners in search of fortune. Once a busy home to 3,000 people, residents began to leave in the 1880s when the nearby mines of Broken Hill surfaced.

Nowadays less than 50 people call Silverton home and only a handful of buildings remain.

9.30am beers at Silverton Hotel!

Silverton has featured in many movies, TV shows and commercials, including the most famous one ... Mad Max 2. Of course we couldn't have a visit without a stop at the Mad Max 2 museum.

Mad Max museum

After leaving Silverton we drove back to Broken Hill to do some more exploring and headed down to Patton Street for a visit to an authentic 1950's milkbar, very cool.

Waffles and ice cream and ice cream spiders!

Kylie playing frogger!

Miners memorial

Then it was back to camp for a relax, beer and swim.

Tonight we took a break from cooking and went to one of the local cafes for dinner and then to watch the sunset looking over Broken Hill.

Sunset over Broken Hill