1800km week-end road trip. GS850. Australia.

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Just found some pics from this trip to Silverton, New South Wales. Didn't stop for many pics. It was pretty cool weather, dry mainly. Only rained in Melbourne. Why Silverton? It's middle of nowhereP1240825 - Copy.jpg, miles from anywhere, not much to look at, mmm.. Max Max 2 was filmed around there so why not head up my mates said.. it will be fun they said.. Haha. Actually it was a pretty decent ride. No major issues for any of us. We did come across a bloke that hit a roo on his Kwaka gtr1000. He was ok, bike was a bit messy.. leaked all it's coolant fluid on the ground, smashed radiator and fairings etc.
Early Friday morning left Melbourne Victoria to Silverton N.S.W. 878km one way.
The last fuel stop in Victoria was in Mildura and just over the border was Wentworth.
From Wentworth N.S.W. to Broken Hill it's 267km. Luckily there is one fuel stop at the Coombah Roadhouse, about half way up the Silver City Hwy.

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P1240826 - Copy.jpgSilverton pub

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P1240830 - Copy.jpgLooking down at the township of Silverton. Not much here really.

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P1240824 - Copy.jpg Looking out to Mundi mundi plains. This is the hill where the prime mover was that Max stopped and got gas from the crashed car before going to the compound. Filming up the other way was the duo on the road bike that went back up the hill on one wheel. Also down the hill was where the tanker was crashed at the end of MM2. Lots of not much and an horizon that stretched way out there, somewhere.....

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P1240831 - Copy.jpg Only 13kms of this lovely rutted road out to Day Dream mine...mm.... and back again

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Day Dream mine Why anyone would mine all the way out here in the 1880s is a desperate wish and desire I think... hoping to strike it rich...No dream, but the beginnings of a silver-lead mine and associated township that pumped out 96000 tonnes of ore in just under two decades.
Two years after Meech's highly profitable discovery, the Barrier Ranges Silver Mining Association bought him out and the company employed 140 men and 20 boys to work the mine 12 hours a day, 6 days a week.P1240827 - Copy.jpg

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Near Day Dream mine. The landscape is harsh, unforgiving, mainly barren, desolate area of the world to be in. Joe Meech died of thirst in 1901 while out prospecting.P1240828 - Copy.jpg

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And that was about it, stayed for Saturday night and rode back home the next day.. bit of a long day, after 10 hours I had enough. It was dark and raining nearing home. Was great to be back home to shower and sleep in my own bed. And up early again Monday for work. Why do we do this? I like bikes. Enough said.

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That landscape reminds me of Arizona, though in the Sonoran Desert at least, there may be a bit more plant diversity.