Day 271 (Wed 4 Apr) - Broken Hill
Spent the morning visiting the Barossa Valley vineyards.
First stop Jacob's Creek - although it was only 10am Jo still managed to sample some fizz. Bought a bottle and headed off to Bethany Wines. Pretty winery on the side of a hill.
After tasting a few more wines drove up the hill and stopped at a lookout overlooking the Barossa Valley.
Drove into Nurioopta and stopped at Elderton Wines. Sampled a very nice 'Friends-Shiraz' - bought a bottle and left the Barossa Valley, stopping to take a piccy of a Wolf Blass vineyard.
At lunchtime commenced our journey to Broken Hill. After a few hours stopped off at Burra to find out whether there were any campsites on the road between Burra and Broken Hill. There didn't seem much between the two towns which were 350km apart!
Headed off into the Outback! Very different scenery - dry scrub land for miles, as far as the eye could see.
As the sun started to go down the Kangaroos woke up and headed straight for the road. Think they were on a suicide mission - Jo was scared of running them over so drove at 20km per hour. Luckily there were very few other vehicles on the road. We were surprised to see a massive freight train wind its way past us through the desolate country.
Arrived in Broken Hill at 6.30pm.
First stop Jacob's Creek - although it was only 10am Jo still managed to sample some fizz. Bought a bottle and headed off to Bethany Wines. Pretty winery on the side of a hill.
After tasting a few more wines drove up the hill and stopped at a lookout overlooking the Barossa Valley.
Drove into Nurioopta and stopped at Elderton Wines. Sampled a very nice 'Friends-Shiraz' - bought a bottle and left the Barossa Valley, stopping to take a piccy of a Wolf Blass vineyard.
At lunchtime commenced our journey to Broken Hill. After a few hours stopped off at Burra to find out whether there were any campsites on the road between Burra and Broken Hill. There didn't seem much between the two towns which were 350km apart!
Headed off into the Outback! Very different scenery - dry scrub land for miles, as far as the eye could see.
As the sun started to go down the Kangaroos woke up and headed straight for the road. Think they were on a suicide mission - Jo was scared of running them over so drove at 20km per hour. Luckily there were very few other vehicles on the road. We were surprised to see a massive freight train wind its way past us through the desolate country.
Arrived in Broken Hill at 6.30pm.
posted by Jo and Sarb at
4/04/2007 06:02:00 am
