{"id":209,"date":"2017-09-05T10:21:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T10:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/21carter.cammeray.info\/site\/?p=209"},"modified":"2018-12-08T22:45:14","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T22:45:14","slug":"2017-broken-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/21carter.cammeray.info\/site\/2017\/09\/05\/2017-broken-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 Broken Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Broken Heels and Mungo Men<br><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" data-header=\"true\" data-footer=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/gp\/161278951@N05\/AujTgN\" title=\"2017 Broken Hill\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1928\/30322480977_3523fbf3be_z.jpg\" alt=\"2017 Broken Hill\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>5th&nbsp; &#8211; 14th September 2017 <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Why visit Broken Hill? <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Megan and I had lived in NSW for a long time, but neverventured further west than Dubbo. Long car trips weren\u2019t our thing. ThenDominic came to visit us in 2016 and chose of all places to visit, BrokenHill.&nbsp; So when we read about a weekendfestival held in Broken Hill to celebrate the making of the movie Priscilla wethought, why not?<\/p><p>It takes a couple of days driving to get to Broken Hill, passing though Dubbo at lunch time on the first day.&nbsp; It is&nbsp; a long way to drive to a place you know very little about. So we decided to pad the trip out with a visit to Mildura \u2013 an irrigated fruit growing area on the Murray, and also visit Mungo National Park with its history stretching back over 40,000 years.<\/p><p>We approached the trip with some trepidation as the idea of driving 600 or more kilometres in a day was daunting. But by sharing the driving we were able to cover the distance in relative comfort. The holiday greatly exceeded our expectations:<\/p><p><br>&#8211; We found the vast emptiness of the outback fascinating. Far from finding it boring, we enjoyed the way the desert scenery constantly changed.<\/p><p><br>&#8211; Broken Hill and Mildura were both well-kept cities with obvious civic pride, good eating, and plenty to see.<br><\/p><p>&#8211; The Broken Heel festival was great fun \u2013 largely because of the party atmosphere and the way the locals got involved. We would have appreciated some entertainment other than drag after three days \u2013 but that isn\u2019t what the movie Priscilla is about!<br><\/p><p>&#8211; The day excursion to Mungo National Park was well worth the trouble getting there. It was surprising to see how much wildlife survives in the arid environment, and visiting a place inhabited for over 40,000 years was quite mind-boggling.<\/p><p>The biggest challenges we encountered were seeing and dodging road kill on the highway, and bringing the right clothing for a climate that swings between 4 and 32 degrees!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1215\" height=\"509\" src=\"http:\/\/21carter.cammeray.info\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/BrokenHill.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-210\" srcset=\"http:\/\/21carter.cammeray.info\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/BrokenHill.png 1215w, http:\/\/21carter.cammeray.info\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/BrokenHill-300x126.png 300w, http:\/\/21carter.cammeray.info\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/BrokenHill-768x322.png 768w, http:\/\/21carter.cammeray.info\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/BrokenHill-1024x429.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1215px) 100vw, 1215px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tue 5<sup>th<\/sup>\nSept \u2013 Sydney to East Maitland<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Broken Hill is 1,100km from Sydney \u2013 a good two day\u2019s\ndriving.&nbsp; To get a head start, free of\nthe early morning Sydney congestion we drove up to East Maitland (near\nNewcastle) on Tuesday night. The original plan was for me to pick up Megan from\nwork and drive her home to give some extra packing time, but I bashed my\nforehead against the sharp corner of the car door waiting for her in Pyrmont,\nand so she ended up driving home whilst I clutched tissues to my head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We had a slightly earlier than usual dinner and were on the road soon after 6:30. After a short diversion in the dark when the GPS incorrectly directed us to Cessnock, we found the Best Western Endeavour Motel on the old New England Highway. A minimal unpack for the overnight stay found that the only thing we hadn\u2019t packed was our travel face washers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wed 6<sup>th<\/sup>\nSept \u2013 East Maitland to Cobar<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a quick breakfast in the room we made an early (for\nus) departure at 8:30. Our route took us up the Hunter Valley then off to the\nwest through Denman and Dunedoo to Dubbo. Because of the large distances\ninvolved we decided to share the driving with the precision used on a boat to\nset watches. Each driver would have 90 minutes at the wheel \u2013 long enough to\nmake significant progress but short enough to avoid fatigue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dubbo was a little over half-way to Cobar and we stopped for\nlunch. After consulting Trip Advisor we headed to the Dahab Caf\u00e9 in a back\nstreet. How eating in country NSW has changed over the years! Dahab offered\ntasty healthy Mediterranean dishes in pleasant surroundings (an old house) with\neasy parking outside. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leaving Dubbo with a full tank of diesel, we encountered our\nfirst straight outback road as we took the Mitchell Highway north-west to a\nrest break at Nyngan and then the Barrier Highway west to Cobar.&nbsp; We encountered our first of many oversize\nloads with large mining equipment taking up most of the road. The roads were\ngood and the traffic light, so we got to our motel in Cobar by 5:30 \u2013 650km in\n9 hrs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cobar is a boom-bust town dependent on copper mining. It is in a boom phase at the moment and the Cobar Central Motor Inn was doing a good trade providing accommodation for mine workers in their Hi-Vis work wear. We were given a room that faced outwards, and not into the central parking area which was nice and quiet. It was super convenient for eating as the Cobar Bowling Club is just across the road serving all the usual Country club dishes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thu 7<sup>th<\/sup>\nSept \u2013 Cobar to Broken Hill<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next morning there was time for a quick look round town\nbefore resuming our journey west. The first stop was the Fort Bourke Hill\nLookout \u2013 a public viewing area looking down into one of the larger Copper\nmines. Although the open cut doesn\u2019t rate as large by Australian standards \u2013 it\nwas the biggest man-made hole I have seen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cobar Miners Heritage Park on the main street had a\ncollection of relocated mining relics \u2013 with an attempt at grass between them.\nThe signage was very informative \u2013 something we enjoyed both in Cobar and later\nin Broken Hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n \n \n\n \n \nThe 260k to Wilcannia on the Barrier Highway was characterised by\nincreasingly arid scenery. The long stretches of straight road disappeared off\ninto the heat haze \u2013 and vehicles had their headlamps on to assist with\nvisibility. Road trains became the norm, but because they travel at the speed\nlimit (110km\/hr) we didn\u2019t have to overtake often. We saw our first live emus\nand camels \u2013 but more distressing was the large amount of road kill on the road\n\u2013 mostly kangaroos. By the roadside were large herds of feral goats \u2013 that\nseemed to be better able to avoid the trucks \u2013 but at one point we encountered\na billy goat standing in the road and Megan had to do an emergency stop. It\nshocked us \u2013 but surprised far more the guys in a red sports car who were\novertaking us at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n \n \n\n \n \nOur first driver change-over was at the Emmdale Roadhouse. From there\nit was just over an hour to the isolated town of Wilcannia on the Darling\nRiver. It was lunch time, and unsurprisingly there is not a lot of choice in\ntown, but we headed for a gem \u2013 Miss Barrett\u2019s Caf\u00e9. After nearly 3 hours\ndodging road kill on the featureless Barrier Highway any coffee stop would be\nwelcome, but Miss Barrett&#8217;s was an eclectic oasis. It was another caf\u00e9 housed\nin an old house \u2013 not serving coffee that morning because supplies hadn\u2019t been\ndelivered but making nice tasty lunches. We met up with the boys travelling in\nthe red sports car \u2013 who were dressed ready for the Broken Heel festival and\nhad driven down from Byron Bay!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n \n \nAfter looking at the muddy Darling River we took the Menindee road\nout of town. I was surprised to find it surfaced \u2013 but that was just to fool us\n\u2013 after a few more bends it turned into dirt, 139 km of dirt!&nbsp; It was a well graded road with few surprises\nbut it was virtually featureless. At one stage we thought there might be a car\ncoming in the opposite direction \u2013 but when we got close it was just an\nisolated flock of sheep stirring up the dust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It took us two hours to reach the shores of Lake Menindee\nwhere we stopped at the lookout by the railway line.&nbsp; The lakes were quite full (they are used as\nwater supply for Broken Hill) but we didn\u2019t see many birds. We then took a diversion\nby Lake Pamamaroo to see the historic base camp site used by Bourke and Wills (as\nMegan is distantly related to Wills). The interpretive signs and survey tree\nare on the edge of a camping area by the shore of the river. The area was\nsurprisingly attractive and, having seen how hostile the outback was to\nexplore, the context of the early explorers was quite moving. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last leg of the 495km day-3 journey west was an hour to Broken Hill through increasingly undulating scenery. We put our watches back \u00bd hr as Broken Hill shares South Australia\u2019s time zone. Our arrival in Broken Hill from the south east was dominated by the vast slag heap that towers over the town. Our hotel was the Ibis Styles, just one block away from the Palace Hotel where the Broken Heel festival was to be held. We had a corner room on ground floor with external windows looking out onto the coach terminal next door \u2013 so instead of being troubled with the noise from other guests, we had the 4am departure each night of the rail bus to Dubbo! That night we ate in the hotel restaurant as we were too tired to go searching down the main street for food. I had a stuffed dates and paella \u2013 a welcome change from the usual country offerings of Pizza, Burger, and Schnitzels!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Fri 8<sup>th<\/sup>\nSept \u2013 Broken Hill<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday was our opportunity to explore Broken Hill as the\nfestival events didn\u2019t kick off till the evening. After visiting the shopping\ncentre for fruit (as we were now within the fruit fly exclusion zone) we drove\nup to the top of the slag heap to see the Broken Hill Miner&#8217;s Memorial. &nbsp;Other than the views over town, it was worth\nvisiting for the remembrance wall inside listing all the miners who have died\nworking the lode and how they died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n \n \n\n \n \nWe continued our tour round town on foot, following a historical\ntrail with informative signs on the footpath. This took us to the Sulphide\nStreet Railway &amp; Historical Museum which focusses on the Silverton Tramway.\nThis was a private railway that connected Broken Hill and Silverton across the\nstate border to the South Australian railways, and which was also responsible\nfor Broken Hill adopting South Australian time. The museum had a collection of\nrailway carriages and engines you could go inside. As with most country museums\ntheir collection had strayed into the less interesting local \u201cjunk\u201d with rooms\nfull of old photographs and household memorabilia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We had intended to visit the Living Desert reserve in the\nlate afternoon sun to see the rock sculptures, but we baulked at the $12\nadmission when we got there, so we turned around and looked at the views from a\ncouple of free viewpoints in town!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We didn\u2019t know what to expect of the opening night at the Broken Heel festival \u2013 so we made sure that we had a good meal first (at a popular Italian restaurant) and rugged up warm (as one of the stages was outside and an overnight low in single figures was forecast). By alternating between the inside cabaret stage (warm but cramped) and the outside stage (cold but plenty of room) we were able to enjoy a lot of first class drag acts \u2013 including a fireworks display synchronised to a Priscilla Tribute show. Friday was a good warm-up to the weekend\u2019s events as the attendance was lower and you could move around the Palace Hotel freely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sat 9<sup>th<\/sup>\nSept \u2013 Broken Heel Festival \u2013 Street Parade<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n \n \n\n \n \nSaturday started slowly \u2013 partly because a bird had flown into a\nsubstation and blacked out most of Broken Hill. As the day warmed up we headed\nout to the festivities. The sun shone on the Broken Heel street parade which\nrecreates the scene from Priscilla the movie where the queens do \u201cOne lap of\nthe Broken Hill main drag, in drag. \u201c The locals turned out in droves to watch,\nand some of the costumes were really amazing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saturday night at the festival was even bigger than the Friday night and the Palace was packed! We managed once again to stay warm and entertained \u2013 and met a lot of interesting festival goers to talk to. When the DJ came on late in the evening we decided that a warm bed was preferable to an ice-cold dance floor and we headed back to the hotel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sun 10<sup>th<\/sup>\nSept \u2013 Broken Heel Festival \u2013 Silverton Day Out<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sunday showed the promise of warmer weather to come (up to\nthen the day time max had struggled in the high teens). It was Silverton Day \u2013\nwhere the festival moved out to the nearby abandoned mining town of Silverton.\nThis was where scenes from Priscilla (and Mad Max 2) were shot. The festival\nlaid on a shuttle coach \u2013 but we took the car for the short trip so we could\n\u201cdo our own thing\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n \n \n\n \n \nOn the way out of town we grabbed a Subway sandwich and then drove\nthe 26k to Silverton on a road with 39 dips \u2013 each crossing a floodway. We had\nour picnic lunch in the grandly named but dusty Penrose Park and then took the\ndirt track back round to the Silverton Hotel. The crossing over the (dry) Black\nHill Creek bed was very unimproved! At the hotel things were already in full\nswing with a crowd (mostly locals) taking all the tables in the outdoor\nentertainment area. We were glad we didn\u2019t need to eat there. The show was a\nbit more of the same (after 3 days we were getting over lip-syncing no matter\nhow good) so we left at the interval and walked up the main street to visit the\nmuseum in the old Silverton Gaol. This was a classic country town museum with rooms\nfull of just about everything, and very little specifically about Silverton!\nBut like all these collections you can always pick out some exhibits that are\nof interest and skip the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back at the hotel a long queue was forming for the bus back\nto town. We had an ice cream and then gave a lift to the \u201cboys from Byron Bay\u201d.\nBefore heading back to town we drove out to the Mundi Mundi lookout which does\nhave the feel of being at the edge of civilisation. The view west is over a\ncompletely flat plain extending to the horizon \u2013 you can even see the curve of\nthe earth! With the obligatory pictures taken we headed home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sunday night at the Palace Hotel was definitely the wind down event. Everything was inside, out of the cold, so we didn\u2019t have to have heavy coats. There was more (of the same) entertainment \u2013 but plenty of space to wander round and chat to people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mon 11<sup>th<\/sup>\nSept \u2013 Broken Heel to Mildura<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n \n \n\n \n \nOn Monday we were back on the road, for the relatively short trip\n(290km) heading south from Broken Hill to Mildura. At first the road was straight\nand featureless, the only hazard being avoiding the road trains carrying\nmineral sands from the Ginkgo and Snapper mines. After an hour or so we entered\nthe Darling River anabranches and crossed ephemeral lakes that supported a\nwider range of vegetation. The approach to Wentworth was typical of the outback\nroads. One moment you are cruising along at 120km\/hr with just a few trees\nahead. The next moment you round a bend, hit a 50km\/hr zone and houses appear \u2013\n50km\/hr feels so slow!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We made a diversion in Wentworth to see the junction of the\nMurray and Darling Rivers.&nbsp; Together\nthese two rivers drain over a million square kilometres in\nsouth-eastern Australia \u2013 an area larger than the combined size of France and\nGermany. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From Wentworth in NSW it was a slow trip over\nthe border to Victoria, through urban sprawl and irrigated orchards to Mildura.\nThe day was fine, if windy, so we opted for lunch in the riverside park at Caf\u00e9\nde Caravan. This is a bit of a misnomer as the kitchen is in a converted\nshipping container not a caravan! We had a tasty lunch sitting outside under a\nsun umbrella. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A short distance downstream was Lock 11 part of the\nimprovements to make the Murray navigable. If you had never seen a lock before (remember\nthere is no canal system in Australia) then this is probably exciting. We just\nwalked across the gates to the island, where as usual there were good\ninterpretive signs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our base for two nights in Mildura was the City Colonial\nMotor Inn. We were hard pressed to find any fault with the accommodation. Perhaps\nthe swarm of bees outside our door when we arrived was unexpected, but they\nsoon flew away.&nbsp; The room had a nice set\nof extras \u2013 like a mains extension board for charging mobile devices, plenty of\nlights, and bright outlook onto the lawns in front of the motel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mildura was a pleasant, if slightly sprawling, town with a clear civic pride. We were within walking distance of Woolworths (to get supplies for a picnic the next day) and the main shopping\/eating street. Many restaurants were closed on Monday so we reserved a table at Thai-Riffic. I am reticent about visiting country Thai restaurants having had some less than inspiring Thai meals outside Sydney. The service at Thai-Riffic was friendly and we ordered some unusual sounding dishes from the menu. The taste was good \u2013 but it was clear the customers in Mildura don\u2019t except there to be chilli in their food!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tue 12<sup>th<\/sup>\nSept \u2013 Mungo National Park<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the temperature climbing rapidly to 32 degrees, we set\noff early to Mungo National Park. There are two routes from Mildura into Mungo,\none all dirt, and the other surfaced for half the way (but a bit longer). We\nchose the latter so that Megan could start the day with a fast run up to Pooncarie.&nbsp; We changed drivers at the start of the dirt\nand were visited by one of the largest flocks of galahs we have seen.&nbsp; Top Hut Road was in good condition as it hadn\u2019t\nrained recently. At one point we passed a rally of people driving tractors \u2013\nyou meet some strange things in the bush! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After paying our park entrance fee and looking round the\nMungo Visitor Centre we set off on the Foreshore Track trail. This two hour\nwalk passed through a number of different areas on what was once the western\nshore of Lake Mungo. There were plenty of explanatory signs which helped us to\nspot things we would normally have walked past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n \n \n\n \n \nThen it was lunch time, so we grabbed a gas BBQ and set about cooking\nsome sausages. The BBQ took $1 coins \u2013 and we had just one between us \u2013 which\nwas lucky! The gas ran out when the sausages were almost cooked so we closed\nthe lid of the BBQ to keep the heat in and waited till the sizzling stopped. Whilst\nwe were eating the wind got up, and we could see clouds of sand rising above\nthe lunettes on the far shore of Lake Mungo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We drove across Lake Mungo&nbsp;\n(it has been dry for about the last 10,000 years)&nbsp; to the east shore and walked out on the board\nwalk to see the \u201cWalls of China\u201d \u2013 eroded sand dunes showing strata dating back\nover 100,000 years. This is where 40,000 year-old Mungo Man was\ndiscovered giving a new perspective to the Aboriginal story. The sand\nblowing over the dunes added a special quality to the view which we able to\ncapture in our pictures. I had been a bit sceptical about driving 4 hours just\nto see some eroded sand dunes, but the sense of timelessness and arid beauty\nwon me over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the drive home we reflected on how much wildlife we had\nseen in a desert park in just few hours; Kangaroos, pink cockatoos, emus, green\nparrots and a death defying stumpy tail lizard in the middle of the road, to\nname a few.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A great day called for a special meal \u2013 so we made a reservation at Brass Monkey \u2013 a sort of reworking of the Melbourne laneway bar in a country town. This dinner was the best we had on our trip, both in terms of the food, and the service. We had already looked at the food menu on-line but the wine list was a pleasant surprise both in terms of the variety and also the very reasonable price by the glass. We chose the barramundi with green apple salad, slow lamb shoulder, and a cauliflower side. Each dish had a distinctive and complementary taste so we ended up sharing everything!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wed 13<sup>th<\/sup>\nSept \u2013 Mildura to Wagga Wagga<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We said good-bye to Mildura and goodbye to the arid scenery\nas we headed up the Murrumbidgee to Wagga Wagga. We stopped on the 560km leg at\nHay for lunch after crossing the Hay Plain. Friends had previously remarked on\nthe featureless Hay Plain \u2013 but after the scenery around Broken Hill we found\nit relatively full of activity and interest. Hay was a bit of a challenge for\nlunch as it is an isolated town off the Sturt Highway and so doesn\u2019t get much\npassing trade. We had a watery coffee and wraps in the Havachat Coffee Lounge \u2013\nbut we didn\u2019t hand around long chatting. The highlight was a slice we shared\nafterwards \u2013 berry and walnut. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The phone GPS decided to take a break just as we arrived in\nWagga so we had to navigate to the Carlyle Suites the \u2018old-fashioned\u2019 way. Our\nfinal night\u2019s stop was conveniently located; on one side was the riverside walk\nwhilst the other entrance lead out into the main shopping street.&nbsp; After over seven hours in the car we\nstretched our legs with a brisk walk along the riverside and then back through\nthe centre of the town. Wagga had more of the feel of an East Coast city than\nan outback country town. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our final dinner was a casual, budget dining option at the Sportsman\u2019s Club Hotel. Mid-week the hotel was quite empty, and their daily special of a &#8220;Breckie Parmie&#8221; (with asparagus, bacon and baby spinach) was quintessentially neuveux Aussie cuisine. It even came with a plate of salad from the salad bar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thu 14<sup>th<\/sup>\nSept \u2013 Wagga Wagga to Sydney<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was 4 degrees in the morning at Wagga so we had to put on\ncoats for the first time to load the car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An early start meant we had to replan the proposed lunch\ntime stop in Goulburn. Instead we pressed on down the freeway and stopped in\nthe Southern Highlands (where it had only warmed slightly by mid-day). Berrima\nis very focussed on (ripping off) tourists \u2013 so we didn\u2019t have a particularly\ngood value lunch, but in another hour or so we were back home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Total trip 3180 km average speed 79.5 km\/hr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broken Heels and Mungo Men 5th&nbsp; &#8211; 14th September 2017 Why visit Broken Hill? Megan and I had lived in NSW for a long time, but neverventured further west than Dubbo. Long car trips weren\u2019t our thing. 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