Broken Hill - the NSW town that's kind-of South Australian and the Menindee Lakes
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- čas přidán 30. 06. 2024
- Heading south from Tibooburra, we reach the town of Broken Hill. Although it's in New South Wales, a lot of things about it are quite South Australian - but why could that be?
We visit the Albert Kersten Mining and Minerals Museum (who was Albert Kersten anyway?), try and fail to go on a mine tour, then tour the Living Desert State Park with its Cultural Hike and sculptures.
After that, we camp at the Burke and Wills campsite in Medindee - spotting an interesting piece of local wildlife.
And then I briefly* recount the Burke and Wills expedition. (* - ok, it's half the video).
Wonderful! Geo Centre & Silver Tree of Broken Hill look amazing.
Thanks!
Thanks for another great video
Glad you like it, and there's many more to come!
You should have looked up your Great Grandfather's history in Broken Hill. He was Manager of one of the mines at aged 22 (I think.) He brokered the deal between management and the miners. The mine got the silver and zinc but the miner's received a bounty on the lead... which suddenly became very valuable with the outbreak of the Second World War. Your Great Grandmother lived at Silvertown. When they married and moved to Adelaide William Queale supplied large fridge trucks to the American Army which was the beginning of Kelvinator.
Ahh, should have asked inside the family... I knew we had some connection with the area.
Always enjoy a retelling of the Burke and Wills expedition. It feel like it could've been a plot from a reality TV show.
Also, that sunset, jeeeees!
It's a very good story of how a group of very dedicated people didn't let inconsequential and trivial things like "skill", "competence", "preparation", "ability" or "good decision making" get in the way of giving it a go!
You may be after the movie "Wills and Burke: The Untold Story" - although I haven't see it myself so I can't tell you how funny it is.
what a corker of a sunset over the lake
I didn't even post-process that shot - no colour grading magic at play there. That's how it actually looked in real life - absolutely magical.
Yeah that was totally and utterly spectacular!
"So you don't like the Yabba?"
Cam you never ever refer ober and over that "Broken Hill is like South Australia"... No its not. Its nothing like South Australia, i was norm and bres. My grandfather was the town Clark of Broken Hill mt other grandfather was a lofetime underground miner, the Broken Hill airport terminal is named after my grandfather. To say Broken Hill is anything like Soith Australia is an insult, but absolutely no comparison whatsoever except yes, the time zone. 👌
I felt it went a little deeper than just the time zone - there's the phone numbers, the postal charges, the stobie poles, a lot of the architecture, the road signs pointing "to Adelaide" and the fact it had a train line to Adelaide long before it did to Sydney. I'm also not sure what's so particularly offensive about being considered South Australian, but I apologise if that hurts.