Having a second crack at heading to Broken Hill after Covid stopped our last attempt. Neither me or the misses have been there before and to be honest apart from the fact we will be seeing good friends im really not looking to the place.
Is there anywhere to stop on the drive that's worthwhile ...…….we have a 4 year old with us so wouldn't mind breaking the trip up with a half an hour stop somewhere. On the map it looks pretty baron though :lol:
These two don't really go hand in hand, there's only one weekend per year that BH has any sort of appeal.
If you're travelling from your joint then you're pretty much shit out of options, if you were travelling from the city the better route would be via the Riverland with a stop at Monash for the kids, the community club does a decent lunch there and then another stop at Mildura to break the trip up, it will cost you an extra half hour travel time. It's too far out of the way if you're travelling from home, an extra two hours at least.
Yeah looking at the maps going via Mildura turns a 4 hour trip into 7.5 hours.
It really doesn't matter if we don't stop on the way but would have been nice to let the little one stretch her legs and grab a bite to eat, whilst checking out somewhere we have never been.
I'm hoping this is one of those times where you really are not looking forward to something and then it turns out to be pretty decent. :lol:
If you are going the other way, Fill up at Yunta because the next stop is Broken Hill 199km away.
Also, make sure you get up to see the Menindee lakes and surrounding areas, finally full, rare to see it like it is now.