The last two days we made 1060 km on the road to escape the rain and cold weather in the south part of Western Australia. It was worth it, yesterday at Carnarvon we found some sunny moments and a little bit warmer weather but still some rain. Carnarvon is a small city which most of…
Tag: Outback
Mullewa, 25 June 2019
We go further direction north in Western Australia. On our trip from New Norcia to Mullewa we pass Perenjori. This small village is amazing. Nice and grand caravan park (some years ago, we stayed here for some days) and the surrounding is interessting and beautyful. It is Western Australias Destrict of Wildflowers where you may…
Fremantle, 22. Juni 2019
Winter at Perth means rain and cooler weather over all. At night it is around 8° and during the days we do have 20-25° cloudy and sunny, if there is no rain. Fremantle is nearly 25 km in the south west of Perth and it‘s located at the sea, the indian Ocean. A lot of…
2017 – Top shots of our trip and short overview
Our trip through the outback was such greatful. The weather, the nature and the people are always worth it to go for such a trip. We did had a lot of beautyful and amazings moments and we are so happy that we could enjoy this great time Down Under. Here you find a short overview…
Mildura – Murray River and Outback
We are on our way back south and so we come to Mildura at Victoria. So we have travelled 5 state of Australia except Western Australia, which we did on our last trips. So the biggest state we didn’t have travled this time. We achieved now the wine region of Australia. Here in Wentworth the…
Silverton – Outback film city
A stone trow of Broken Hill, 25 km north west, there is Silverton Hotel“. Silverton was the first Silver City in these region when the hip started. Silverton was estimated at 1881. Broken Hill estimated at 1883 that for it over come Silverton because at Broken Hill there was and is still huge silver so…
Broken Hill – world largest silver mine
Broken Hill is since its establissement in the year 1883 the world largest silver mine and there is also tin and lead. Everything startet here with 7 claims and the company to run this was “Broken Hill Proprietary Co” BHP. After only 2 years of existing the owner parts were sold and the today still…
Kingoonya – Outback and Railway
After the real changeable time at Coober Pedy wie slowly travelling to the south. Next stop and interesting spot to stay, for all how wants to see some Railways at the Outback, is Kingoonya. Here about 100 trains are passing through per week or they also stop to cross or bring the mail in, as…
Coober Pedy – Opal Mining and underground living
The opal mining at Coober Pedy is still running and this is perfectly shown through all the Diggings (Exvacation of opal mining). The Diggings starts 50 km befor you arrive at Coober Pedy and these digging fields may be seen almost 20 km before you are there. That‘s such flat out here and the view…
Coober Pedy – Breakaways
Coober Pedy – „The Opal Capital of the World“ is such deep in the outback even the golf course is in stone and sand – pure Outback. Coober Pedy is still known as the Opal Mining spot of Australia. Opal Mining is still a good business here but the numbers of miners has changed, only…