The long road North East is good and traverses many small hills and open grassy plains with now and then a small group of goats crossing the road. Traffic is sparse and dominated by road trains and now and then a camper. Driving such a long distance east means the sun sets earlier. We wanted to see the sunset  from the Living Desert Sculpture Symposium hill. We made it just in time but have to go back tomorrow morning to read the description and walk the nearby trail. That is also why we are camping in this State Park  just outside Broken Hill (a large mining town for silver and lead).

We had a very satisfying day. First a nice warm showers at the NP campsite and then off to Broken Hill.
The first stop was the home and gallery of Pro Hart. A well known local artist who has his own private gallery next to his house.  We loved his colorful naïeve style and bought some prints.
Another local artist has over 1500 mineral art “paintings” and diorama’s explaining the workings of the Lead Zink mine. The ore body is very large (7,5 km long, 2,5 km deep and 200 m wide) and has been mined for over 140 years. In the next 10 years the ore will run out. But there is still enough to be mined in the surroundings.
Further we made a stop at the old Palace Hotel which has vibrant murals and the sobering Miners Memorial on top of the high tailings dump on the edge of town.
It was 15:00 hr when we finally left town. We stopped again just before sunset at a campsite along the Darling river in Wilcannia some 200 km further East. Here we had a great chat with several traveller’s by the bon fire.