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Lost Sea Opals

The Lost Sea showroom-gallery incorporates Lost Sea Opals workshop.Visit Lost Sea Opals to see exquisite cut opal gemstones, rough opal, beautiful opal jewellery, and a display of rare opalised fossils from the age of the dinosaurs. The skilled and friendly people who cut the opal and make the jewellery are also available to answer visitor's questions, and to provide reliable information about Lightning Ridge, opal, and Lost Sea Opals products. Visitors can purchase jewellery from the Lost Sea Jewels range or select from other unique gifts including books about opal and the charismatic outback town of Lightning Ridge...

Sundown Nature Trail

Sundown Nature Trail is situated in the rocky Sundown Hills, on the northern edge of Broken Hill Common. The hills are sparsely vegetated with tough, perennial plants adapted to the harsh, dry environment and in good seasons, ephemeral grasses and wildflowers. Native animals can be easily seen. The walk is best in the hour immediately before or just after sunrise. Suggested time to leave town is about three hours before sunset. The walk is 2.8 kilometres long, through rocky terrain and takes about 1-1.5 hours to complete...

Twin Lakes

A rare sight in the middle of the outback, a beautiful park with a lake, big grassed areas and a newly built adventure playground for the kids. Relax in the shade of a tree, have a picnic or a stroll around the lake and watch the ducks. This park is part of the Peilya Mine and from the park you can observe the surface structure of one of the few still operating mines in the Broken Hill area...

Fergie Memorial Statue

The ?little grey? Ferguson tractor wrote itself into the annals of local history through the integral part it played in saving Wentworth fron the 1956 floods. Flood waters raced towards Wentworth via both the Darling and Murray rivers, resulting in a third of Wentworth going under water. Wentworth became an island in an inland sea. The tenacious will of the Wentworth people saw them stay and fight to save their town from ruin when all authorities were urging them to evacuate. Media at the time were particularly harsh towards those staying put. Terms such as ?madness?, 'sheer folly? and ?mock bravery and madness? were reported. The small Ferguson tractors were prevalent in the area at the time and prove superior to other machinery as they were light, manoeuverable, coped well with the sticky, slippery clay of the levee banks and posed little danger of collapsing them. During the floods the roar of the little Fergies could be heard 24 hours a day as volunteers patched and built crumbling and new levee banks to fortify Wentworth from the rising waters. Once the floods began receeding, people were so exhuberant in regards to their success that one fellow drove his Fergie tractor into the local hotel (with the front wheels reaching the bar) and celebratory drinks were had all around. An earlier monument to the town-saving Fergies was erected at the corner of Adelaide and Darling Streets in Wentworth in 1959 and still remains there to this day. This earlier cairn is the world's first monument to a tractor and is worth visiting also...

Gundabooka National Park

Gundabooka National Park covers an area of 43,000 hectares. The main feature of the park's landscape is the Gundabooka Range, which rises to a height of 500 metres at Mount Gundabooka. From the summit of the Gundabooka range there are extensive views of the wide open plains typical of north west New South Wales. The rust coloured rocks that can be seen on the rugged surface of the cliffs, gorges and hills are over 385 million years old. Gundabooka National Park is of great cultural significance to the Ngemba Aboriginal people. Certain places in the range were used as venues for large ceremonial gatherings. Paintings have been found under several overhangs, which highlight many aspects of the Ngemba culture. They include hand stencils, lively pictures of dancers, animals and other motifs. Access to the park is by dry weather roads only and visitors need to contact the National Parks office in Cobar or Bourke before visiting...

Silver City Minerals

Call in and view the most spectacular range of Broken Hill minerals in Australia. Over 4000 minerals, superbly crystallized, beautifully displayed under lights! Phone (08) 8088 2879 for appointment (to make sure we are home)...

Two Up School

Two Up - The Great Australian Game. The game of two-up is as old as European settlement of Australia. Two Up's origins are rather obscure. Some claim it was invented by the Teutons as the alternative name of 'Zwei' is the German word for two. A game of 'chuck the farthing' was popular with convicts at Circular Quay, Sydney during the early 1790's. However Two Up's fame really spread during World War One when Australian soldiers in France would spend their spare time gambling on the toss of two pennies. Even today games of Two Up are played around Australia on Anzac Day (25 April), with police turning a blind eye to illegal gambling on this one day of the year. Two Up has been part of Broken Hill life for many years. For more than 60 years the illegal Two Up school was conducted behind a large green door in Crystal Lane at the rear of a 'Greasy Spoon' cafe. Two Up today is held at the Musicians Club. Played in the traditional manner, with one exception, women are allowed to play...

Brewarrina Aboriginal Fish Traps

Low stone walled fish traps once used by the tribal Aborigines for catching fish is located in the bed of the Barwon/ Darling River. Located at an ancient Dreamtime site, the Aboriginal Fisheries on the Barwon/Darling River. Camp out under the stars, visit Aboriginal sites in the area and even fish in the river, as we have done since the Dreamtime...

Albert Kersten Geo Centre

The Broken Hill Geo Centre displays minerals, gems and interesting props regarding mining in Broken Hill and the town's special gift of minerals are displayed. The Geo Centre is not a static collection of rocks but a dynamic and active interpretive centre. With the many hands-on exhibits, light, sound and movement, visitor can discover some of the beauty and mystery of the world of minerals. Learn about the science of crystals, explore the history of our planet in the Time Line Room; find out for yourself, how the magic of metallurgy makes mineral processing possible. Uniquely designed cabinets display over 200 choice specimens at a time. Each of these specimens are individually lit so that they may be seen to their best possible advantage. The Geo Centre is part of The Living Museum Program in Broken Hill...

Balranald Heritage Trail

Take a walk through history and follow our map to visit sites of historic significance. A copy of the town map showing the historic walk is available from the Balranald Visitor Information Centre...

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