mulga tufted hills
guard the sculptures
mother and child
dreamed
and pained out of sandstone
straining up
now
and for the next thousand years
sandstone monoliths
great blocks
quarried and carted here
from ten-thousand year OLD COUNTRY
where the people lived for thousands of years
until chilled out
into this NEW COUNTRY

ancient ocean grindings
of primordial mountains
cemented and raised again
weathered down
monoliths
set in place on sculpture hill
and slowly wrought
by people of many cultures
gifts from culture to culture
for long time
until weathered down again
by the same mountain grinding elements

• Left Broken Hill on time.
• Same dumb video as on the way up. Again, the lounge car was very popular.
• Arrived Adelaide on time.

We were exhausted, eagerly wanting home and rest. Members' reflections on what they have learnt about the lower Darling are their private views, and not necessarily those of U3A Adelaide Inc.

Man-made Lake Wetherall is like an oasis in an otherwise depressing landscape. Made by damming the main channel of the Darling above the naturally occurring lake system, it has created a wetland type environment which is quite scenic. Below the weir, the Darling is in a very degraded state while Lake Menindee is just a desert.

We gained the impression that irrigators, both corporate and small private land owners, were making sincere efforts to use their water allocations efficiently. The big question remains - can the system support irrigation at any level??