Menindee Lakes & Kinchega National Park Tour (Part One)

Day 3 of our Broken Hill adventure - before lunch Wayne's joke of the morning . . . "See all those trees? They are dead Dog Trees." Really? There's a tree called that? "Yeah. They got no bark!" Wayne is back again, this time with a new chariot to take us out to Menindee, 110km (68mi) south-east of … Continue reading Menindee Lakes & Kinchega National Park Tour (Part One)

NSW Trainlink Outback Explorer from Sydney to Broken Hill

Day 1 of our Broken Hill adventure began with our pre-dawn arrival at Sydney Central railway station to catch the Outback Explorer operated by the NSW state railway. This organisation used to have the sensible name of "Countrylink" which kind of suggested that you could use them to catch a train to the country. Then … Continue reading NSW Trainlink Outback Explorer from Sydney to Broken Hill