Silverton or bust.

I'm a little cold sitting in the frost..but it is the first time I've seen it :)

Wholly dolly.  Now I come from Far North Queensland and when we woke up this morning there was FROST on the tent.  Yep, you heard me right, frost.  Oh my goodness it was cold.  Have any of you guys been in a frost before?  Wow, I was pretty cold but was brave and had my photo taken at the campground at Silverton because I've never seen it before and it was really cool.  :)

Old Church at Silverton

Silverton was named in 1883 because of the silver and lead ore miners found in the surrounding Barrier Range.  By the late 1880's the town's population expanded to 3,000 people.  Now it goes from 10 to 100, and not quite a ghost town, but has a lot of cool buildings that have been left from yesteryear that you can explore. 

An Australian classic movie 'Mad Max' was made out here too, and you can still see Mad Max's car in town.  It is one of those really cool, go fast one.  Yahoo.

Mad Max's car...classic Australian movie

It's a great little town to explore.

A nice cold beverage, or warm pie, it was a cold day.

The Road Just Keeps Going on and on and on.........

The Road the just keeps going.....

 

We left Eulo, after my early morning training session at the Lizard Track ready for as far as we could get.  With the dirt roads all closed off we have to stick to the black tar for a while until we get to Broken Hill and go from there.  We did cross the Queensland/New South Wales Border. :)

Passing the time waving to cars...some people did wave too :)

So what do you do when you are sitting, in a car to pass the time????

Man, I was so bored at one stage I started waving to all the cars, and then played eye spy, making up sentences with the three letters on the rego plates.  Phoenix wasn't much fun he just slept.  Some 355km later we arrived at a bush camp just outside of Burke.  So I guess you could say we really were at "The back of Burke."  ......

Yahoo crossing the border from Qld to NSW

In Outback NSW....

Phoenix and I taking a break after a long drive....