A stone trow of Broken Hill, 25 km north west, there is ton. A town with its famous hotel and pub “ton Hotel“. Silverton was the first Silver City in these region when the hip started. Silverton was estimated at 1881. Broken Hill estimated at 1883 that for it over come Silverton because at Broken Hill there was and is still huge silver so Broken Hill became the big city.
Today Silverton is a place with a hand full of houses. One of them is the famous Silverton Hotel. This hotel is really famous all over Australia because it was and is often used for filming and commercials. One film, which was made here and may be known over the world is “Mad Max 2” with Mel Gibson.
5 km in the north if Silverton is the “to see the earth curvature. We don’t have such a clear sunset but we see indeed the Flinders Ranges in about 260-300 km distance.
Only 4 km further on there is the “ton. We were told that 6 month ago this water reservoir was dried out because there was no rain for about 7 month in the region, which includes a region of about 200 km around. There are rivers to fill up the reservoir from all around but those were dried out as well.
In Silverton you meet a lot of nice Australians, they pop in after work for a beer from Broken Hill and those who work here are such gentle too. This is a place that must have been seen.
Even the to visit.