Kalgoorlie

Kalgoorlie, well its an interesting place.  Pretty much what we had heard and expected.  A mining town but a pretty good one. We spent four days here looking at the sights and catching up with our mates Adam and Cath.  Was great to see Adam again and to get to know Cath. 
We also had a look at work availabilty, caravan parks and schools.  We are thinking of potentially coming back here for our next work stop.  I think it would be a great place to work and earn money but the caravan parks are dusty and not so nice.  There's a great sports and aquatic centre, we had a swim and I even checked out the gym. We will keep looking as we travel the south west and decided closer to July I think.

We took the kids to Mt Charlotte lookout over Kalgoorlie.  It was a cold day but kids being kids found water and had to splash.  Always good to get a view from up high to orientate your self to a town.

We went to the main tourist attraction in town, the Super Pit.  That is one big hole in the ground.  From the main part of town it just looks like a hill in  the background.  You can hear the trucks a little at night but not much.  The giant yellow trucks looked like tiny little match box trucks.

We figured we should keep trying to educate the kids as we travel.  In a mining town what do you do, you go to a mining museum of course.  It was a quaint old museum.  It had a couple of fabulous yellow machines at the front and a lot of old stuff the rest of the way.  It was good to get perspective from up on the truck, then to look up at it from bellow.  Its crazy to think that it takes about 6 loads of material from these trucks to make a golf ball size piece of gold. 

The kids favourite part of the day was panning for gold at the museum.  They worked very hard but didn't find any gold.  So Mark distracted them and I hid a gold coin in each of their pans.  They were so excited to find real gold, but soon realised we'd put it there.

We had a great time in Kalgoorlie.  Had dinner at Adam and Cath's place, Mark and Adam had a few drinks.  The next day Mark was a little unwell.  He proclaimed to Cath and Adam it must be because of the dodgy water in Kalgoorlie.  Cath was good enough to remind Mark he hadn't drank any water last night!! hee hee  You never know we may end up back here.  Off to Esperance and Cape Le Grande National Park.