Kalgoorlie

A seriously big hole.

Before we head off along the long and not-so-winding road across the Nullarbor, I wanted to quickly put up a short post about Kalgoorlie.  Some people said that we wouldn’t want to spend too long in Kalgoorlie, but I really like the place.  This historic gold-rush town 300km’s north of Esperance has lots of character (and characters).   OK, it does now have a K-Mart and the big supermarkets, but, if you were so inclined, you could still buy a gun in the camping store, get a saddle for your horse from a shop on the high street and then pop to one of the local ‘bordellos’ (as I say, if you were so inclined), so it hasn’t lost its entire ‘wild west’ feel!  We, on the other hand, went to see a seriously big hole in the ground -  the ‘Super Pit’ - which is the largest open cut mine in the southern hemisphere,  we went deep underground on a tour through one of the original mines and we also saw a gold-pouring demonstration which was pretty hot!  Certainly worth a few days visit.  

See you at the other side of the Nullarbor!

Another big truck

Gold!

Downt' pit.  Game-fully employed at last.