Day Six - Silverton to Tibooburra.

We planned to leave by 9.30 and I am proud to say we were only 20 minutes late! We drove into the historic Silverton, which has some fame as the location of the filming of Mad Max Two hence the museum.

 

Some friendly donkeys charmed the girls looking for food. They always look pensive to me.

 

This gallery found a use for old Volkswagen Beetles, we wondered if our friend Lloyd ever worked on these three. So now our blog is complete with a reference to Volkswagen. Rest easy Justin.

 

We looked into the old school to give the girls some insight. In the height of the 1880s gold rush at Silverton there were 200+ children in the school taught by one male teacher and an assistant. The teacher's wife got to teach the girls embroidery and handicrafts a few times a week. The historians are unsure if she got paid for this service.

 

The RFDS tour was very interesting. They no longer use the pedal radios to communicate, everything is by phone or satellite phone. The planes, from Kansas, cost about 6 million and a further two million to fit out to carry a max of two stretchers, two sitting patients and three staff. They then refit it back to a passenger plane when it is time to sell it.

 

The drive to Tibooburra couldn't be described as pleasant. It was mostly on dirt interspersed with the odd stretch of sealed road, enough to get your hopes up only to be dashed for 12 km. We left later that we wanted, so I drove through animal infested dusk. We saw our first wild boar cross the road ahead of us, and followed behind a bouncing kangaroo for a short while. Dead Horse Gully in the Sturt Nat. Park was home for the night, 2km past Tibooburra. I served up gourmet Wagu beef burgers (haha) with the last of Mum's beet root relish and salad in English muffins while Justin put our home together in record time. And for those who wondered, there was no tomato sauce despite our location.

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