Wednesday was spent mostly on a bus with the 10 other students on the trip, 2 professors, trip supervisor, and cultural guide/bus driver. We drove into the Outback and into New South Wales. The land was quite barren: red earth dotted by sage green plant scrub and 3-4 feet high bush/trees. Every once in a while you’d see a tree, but for the most part the tallest thing in sight were telephone poles. The most exciting thing during our trip was seeing an (unfortunately dead) echidna. An echidna is an Aussie porcupine, and his spikes felt like toothpicks (yes, I touched it).
Finally, we reached our destination: Broken Hill, NSW. Broken Hill is a small, strange mining town. It goes by the South Australia time zone, which is a ½ hour difference from the east coast of Australia (it doesn’t make sense to me either).
After we checked into our hotel, we headed to Silverton (15 minutes from Broken Hill). Silverton was a mining town (silver as I’m sure you guessed) that had a population of 3000 in 1885. After the ore ran out, the town was pretty much deserted, and only 50 people live there now. Lots of movies/commercials have been shot in Silverton (such as Mad Max 2), and we headed there to take pictures of its iconic imagery. In Silverton there are a lot of old buildings that are abandoned and falling down, which make for great pictures. Unfortunately I had some camera issues and didn’t see a lot of the cool stuff until it was too dark for the black and white camera to capture images properly. Oh well. It was my first real photo shoot, and I still have a lot to learn.
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