All went well with a great little free camp at Lake Douglas, 7k's west of town, clean facilities with were cleaned daily and rubbish as well. Did a quick look around for an hour or so before returning to camp.
Well we spent 3 days as tourists in Kalgoorlie/Boulder, a very interesting place to see, it started out with a lightening show, spectacular that was as it moved from the north around the west and disappeared south, very little wind and no rain.
I took a couple of shots but the mosquitoes started to attack so I left it at that.
The hour long scenic flight out to Lake Leroy and back over the Super Pit was well with it, the number of open cut mines around here is unbelievable, some are still working and others are just partly filled with ground water( salty as hell )fenced and closed up. The ground water is used for most of the mine workings as fresh water is piped in from Perth and as such not wasted. There is one mine actually in the Lake it's self, lucky it doesn't flood, they have sunk bores down into the artesian basin for their fresh supplies. Looks really weird to see a boron the middle of a massive salt lake.
Then back over town to the Super Pit which at present is the 3 rd largest open cut in the world at 3.3 k long, 1.5 wide and 600m deep, with the future expansion planned it should become the largest. The only thing about it is that it is owned by a joint American/Canadian company, all gold is sold to the Australian Government at current world prices and all profits go overseas! Talk about stupid Government buying our own resources, same goes for Gas production, iron ore etc, we are just great at giving away our assets.
We did the Markets on Sunday morning, same old same old you get at every market in any town so nothing new there, Took Kath out to see her first 2 up game played. The game is held here every Sunday afternoon and seeing the money being thrown around stunned Kath, minimum bet was $50, needless to sawyer didn't join in although Kath would have loved to have a go at tossing the pennies.
Came back into town and just enjoyed looking at thebeautifull old building preserved in their original state including the only legal house of ill repute - Hay St brothel.
Then it was off to the Mining museum where there is a vault with about $6 M worth of gold nuggets, ingots, old jewellery, coins etc on display, that was something to see as was a push bike made by an old prospector from scrounged timber.
After all that, it is now time to head south and out across the Eyre Highway- Nullarbor Plains so it may be a few days before we are back in circulation.
Catch you on the flip.
Bob n Kath
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