After yummy banana hotcakes, we farewelled our hosts and our friends, then headed to our first pit stop at Peterborough. We just propped in the main street, which doesn’t seem to have changed since any of our previous trips through this old railway town. The two storey Railway Hotel is on the opposite corner to the cabinet maker’s shop, which has been permanently closed. There is an entrance to the hotel on the corner under the roof turret with the wonky weather vane.
We drove through what’s left of Oodla Wirra, population 5. The halfway hotel looks more than halfway dead. There is a quarantine station that checks fruit and vegetables being transported into SA, but it was closed.
Our lunch stop was at Yunta, population 60. There are old railway trucks on a siding. I wondered about this small town having four all-weather tennis courts, but discovered that for 60 years, there was a Yunta Easter Tennis Tournament, which ended in 2023. The Yunta Tennis Club is yet to announce future plans for any future tournament.
There is unique and ever-changing scenery on the Barrier Hwy.
We drove through Manna Hill, Olary, and Cockburn, the last town in SA, before we crossed the border into NSW. While Broken Hill is in NSW, it operates on SA time and SA telephone area codes.
We expected to be allocated a powered site near the gate at the Broken Hill Tourist Park, but were sent to another dusty site next to a smelly drain. Anita persuaded the office to relocate us to the area we prefer. After we moved and set up, Anita cooked dinner for all of us.
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