We pulled into Kalgoorlie after a mammoth 1026km day - and a rest day was very much in order. There was a 24 hour limit on our free camp in town, so we packed up, and treated ourselves to breakfast a the historic Dome cafe in town. Suitably refreshed, we wandered down to the Visitor Information Centre. Armed with all the latest information, we booked in for two nights at a local caravan park. We quickly set up camp, put three huge loads of washing on, and had a nice shower (oh bliss). It was then time to head back into town and checked out the sights.
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| They even make roofs of gold here! The old Post Office / Court House clock tower sports a gold leaf roof! |
Everything in Western Australia is big. Big distances between towns, big farms ploughed and harvested by big machinery, all costing big dollars - but sometimes you see something that is absolutely massive. Yes, we went to the Super-Pit. A vision of Allan Bond, the SuperPit brought the amalgamation of several mining leases, in order to extract the gold ore using open cut mining techniques. Whilst Allan Bond never achieved his objective - he went bust before pulling it off, he is credited with the idea that created the largest open cut gold mine in the world.
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| The buckets used to load the trucks are huge - holding about 35 tonnes of ore. |
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| Looking into the huge cut - massive 793C ore trucks look like matchbox cars |
