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Wilpena Pound is a 80 square km natural basin, a sunken elliptical valley ringed by gnarled ridges of rock. Don’t let anyone tell you it’s a meteorite crater. If you view the Wilpena Pound from above you can see why the Adnyamathanha people believed the Pound to be the joined bodies of two akurra (giant [...]

The Flinders Ranges are an ancient mountain range, once higher than the Himalayas ! The colours of the landscape are remarkable: as the day passes, the mountains change from soft green mornings to midday brown and ochre red sunsets. Before the Europeans arrived, the Flinders were well known by the Adnyamathanha people for their medicinal and [...]

Welcome to South Australia ! We cross the border just after 09h00, half an hour after we left Broken Hill. Apart from a sign and a ‘border cafe’, there is nothing but outback. Further west, it keeps empty on the road with hardly any traffic to the Flinders Ranges. January is usually not tourist season for the Flinders as it [...]

Clairy Browne and The Bangin’ Rackettes are a nine piece rhythm and blues big band from Melbourne. Their music is influenced by artists like Big Mama Thornton and Etta James. The group is well known in Australia as they perform regularly on festivals and outdoor concerts. The debut album of Clairy Brown is called Baby [...]

  And then there are ‘sculptures’. The Broken Hill Living Desert and Sculptures are one of the main icons of Broken Hill. Twelve impressive stone sculptures are situated on a hill located about 10km north of Broken Hill. The sculptures were carved in 1993 by artists from around the world, under the direction of organiser and artist Lawrence [...]

Pro Hart was a former miner, but also Broken Hill’s best known artist. Although he died in 2006, his gallery is worth visiting. The Flying Doctors museum near the airport is fascinating, and shows everything about the service, including the headquarters, aircraft and the radio room that handles calls from remote towns and stations. 100 [...]

It literally feels like a warm bath in Broken Hill. Sunny, blue skies, and a dry heat of 35C. Love it. Today we drive to Silverton, a ghost town 26 kms north of Broken Hill. Silverton has been used as a setting for movies like Mad Max II and A Town Like Alice. The road [...]

This is the longest stretch of this years holiday: 750 kms in one day. Simply because there is (hardly) anything interesting inbetween these towns. This is outback New South Wales. For many people Broken Hill would be a town to skip, but if you do a proper research you soon discover there is lots to see [...]

The zoo in Dubbo is the largest open air zoo in Australia. You can wonder around by foot, bike or car. It has more than 1,500 animals including some amazing white and black rhinoceros, and a sumatran tiger. It’s a subsidiary of the famous Taronga Zoo in Sydney. There are no fences, and it feels like you [...]