New South Wales covers approximately an eighth of Australia but the distances are still great by UK standards and the contrast in landscape is fascinating Though it is the most populated state, away from the coast the traffic is sparse and the driving is easy. In the outback, there are as many roadtrains as cars.
Cobar was a major mining town. It is generally baking hot, and is where the farmlands are replaced by scrub.
Relics from the industrial past. There are not too many windy roads out here. Around Broken Hill the lands is proper outback and the sunsets are spectacular.
This and the previous sunset photos were taken outside Silvertown, where Mad Max 2 was filmed. The sculpture park above Broken Hill . The Snowy Mountains are in the south-east of NSW. They are the highest range in Australia. Here a small amount of snow has survived through to December, which is early summer.
The Eastern slopes of the Snowy Mountains, with a storm blowing in from the plateaus to the east.
Hay is an agricultural centre in the middle of NSW. The elevation in this area varies less than 20 metres over several hundered square miles. This late storm moving across the horizon was a couple of hundred miles away.
Back in Sydney for Christmas and New Year, though some of the wild west will always stay with us.
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