Our motel seemed to be popular with bikers, this morning we got talking to a group who were riding mainly dirt across the flinders ranges. Think Tom thought he was on he wrong tour.
Before leaving Broken hill we thought we should go and see a bit of history, Silverton is a former mining town where in the 1860 silver had been discovered it became one if the biggest towns in Australia until it all run out. Now it is a ghost town, not even that as all the buildings were dismantled and taken to other sites a very early form of recycling, resourcefulness or was it necessity. All that remains is the Mad a Max museum just a shack but it has some good photos and replicas of the cars. We rode out to the site of the one of the big chase scenes we were told we would recognise it. Think we will have to watch the film again.

The way was out across the desert the road was good little traffic. Made a few stops pizza from last night made a great snack. Then we pulled into a traditional road house Mannahill. This place is stuck in a time warp. There was one elderly lady inside serving. Wood stove was on creating a warm but musty atmosphere, coffee pot on top. This place had bits of memorabilia everywhere in it. Road train models made from drink cans, to old photos and general junk. It all had a tatty old musty feel to it, along with its owner who made Tom a coffee. Not sure how this place survives if it does. A couple of other people come in while we are there, so may be few coffees a day is ok. Coffee tasted very odd. Talking to another customer who had stopped by they told us about all the Kangaroo they had seen on their trip. They rent their house out in Adelaide hitched up a trailer and went for a drive probably go back in a few months.

Made our way across to Port Augusta once we neared the coast and the edge of the flinders ranges it became a far more scenic ride. The road winding tightly through grassy hills interspersed with knarly old trees.

Our motel was a little out of town but ok room for the cost people really friendly. We walk towards town to find something to eat. Hopefully the place was still open it was only 7.45pm but everything shuts early.

Big discussions over dinner should it be North or South.
Not really difficult Tom wants to experience the real outback. There's Ayers Rock on the way and it means we don't double back as we are now to ship out of Sydney not Darwin. So North it is.