My wife has always wanted to go to Carinda. She's a big David Bowie fan and that is where they filmed Let's Dance. It is a town of about 150 people and located 650km north west of Sydney. So we decided to have a bit of a road trip and head off to Lightning Ridge which is another 100km further north Unfortunately the Carinda has seen better days than when it was being filmed in the early 80's Had to contend with a bit of traffic to get there though Emus everywhere
Great pictures, keep them coming, it's fascinating to see the real Australia rather than the movie version.....however, how about a Priscilla, Queen of the desert version
We headed up to Lightning Ridge after that. That's a whole different world More emus and roos but also a whole heap of wild goats From there we headed to Grawin - about 75km west. Roads were not the best Trying to set up a tent was a whole new experience
The pub was called the Glengarry Hilton. It was no "tourist pub" This is where the opal miners drank. Friendly enough - but you didnt ask what their name was. This is one guys house The pub Stanly wasnt too impressed The miner's dogs would have eaten a wild boar for breakfast
After that, we slowly headed back to Sydney. We have recently retired, so this was a bit of an exploratory for finding some pubs with free camps and good food and cold beer. We found quite a few
been to that pub in Broken hill as well Sadly, the pubs in broken Hill are not what they use to be. Tourism has taken it's toll and most are up market now with bus loads travelling through You can see in the picture that it mostly shops on the street level. There was a small bar on the left with an open widow you could sit at. But no seats out side - everyone wants air conditioning comfort. Give me a street seat where I can watch the life anyday 75km away is a town called Silverton. The pub there is still a cracka - where they filmed the first Mad Max
That's the trouble with tourism, it can destroy the thing that attracted them there in the first place. Great pictures and I'm not jealous at all !!!!
