Kalgoorlie

Sammy

Sammy and Syd.

Saturday 20^th August

Esperance was warm and sunny, we saw Sammy the resident sea lion lying on the beach yesterday, The drive north to Kalgoorlie was pleasant, we followed the train line most of the way, the railway would be for the mining trains taking loads from Kalgoorlie, a distance of  360klms to the port of Esperance.

We stopped in Norseman for a cuppa and we were in Kalgoorlie by early afternoon.

The visitor centre was just shutting it’s doors when we arrived a few minutes after 2pm.

We found a caravan park and booked in for three nights. This should give us time to tour the super pit, the markets and the lookout on our first day. The museum would keep until Monday.

Kalgoorlie has beautiful old buildings, I'm so pleased they have kept their heritage in the goldfields.

Old heritage building in Kalgoorlie.

The Super Pit.

Big Tonka Truck.

Famous Hay St brothel

Sunday 21st August

Boulder, right next to Kalgoorlie has markets on the third Sunday of the month, which lucky for us was today. Also, there is a free bus tour of the super pit on the same day. We were too early for booking tickets, so walked around the markets and bought some jams and relish. Of course, also some homemade slices and biscuits.

The super pit is Kalgoorlie’s open cut gold mine, it is awesome!  Massive trucks carry deposits of ore out of the bottom of the pit, you have to see this pit to believe it. The bus tour was very informative and interesting. The tour went for about an hour, returning us to the super pit shop in town. John later drove to the public viewing lookout.

At the Super Pit lookout.

Before we went to the park, we had a coffee in town and drove to the lookout to take photos of the town. We went to Hay Street to see the brothel, they do tours every day. John rang to find out the tour price!I think it was too expensive at $18! That was seniors rate.

We have another night here in Kalgoorlie then we start our trip home, over the Nullabor Plain.