Red earth, beautiful dry flora and bouncing fauna, yes today I have stumbled across some photo from a wild time ago, when I was in the desertic Australian lands. The last town of the New South Wales before entering the Southern Territory. It was May 2012, nine years has passed from then and it feels like so much time and thinking about this and all the Cryptocurrency talk of these days and dates on that time Bitcoin was 3 years old. I don't know seems like I crazy statement.
Broken Hill stand far in the middle of nowhere, we where geared up for drought and fuel scarcity but that wasn't the case, time have changed and while in Australia you can go remarkable distances without finding nothing Roadhouses are placed nowdays at a very convinient distance making the trip less dangerous. Still be safe and take precautions!
We discovered that Broken Hill was home of a mining rush, one of the biggest silver-zinc-lead deposit in the world was slumbering there close to the small town. The photos told a story of a very active town in the past years, when the mining was swinging in fullforce with workers coming from allover the main cities to work there. But not anymore, the activities now have been automated and the town is a tour through the history and a newfound hub to explore the quiet and peaceful barren lands that surround the place.
I found myself appreciating this kind of nature that give so much space to thinking and dreaming. The sight is just surreal and the nightsky was so overwhelming each night that you may find the milkyway imprinted in your eyes. While walking in the handcrafted sculpted stones that rappresented deities and spirits of the indigenous tribes(wich sad story one day I'll tell) wallabies where hopping by but never coming too close other then in the huts that where made to attract them with water and shelter.
And so while we gazed on the dusty horizon walking over mining rush of the past and little did we know that the mining of the future was starting to become digital. That atmosphere when the sun was about to explode on the edge of earth, that I can still immidiatly recall.