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Coolgardie Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Coolgardie, Australia
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The Outback Pub
This is a top pick! This weekend saw a visit to the remote outpost of Ora Banda, an historic and sunbaked community of... at least a dozen or so, and a notable point of interest along the 'Golden Quest Discovery Trail'. I took a ride out there with Laurie who furnished me ...
On the road again...
... groceries and say goodbye to Jade. We hung around there for a little while and then headed back to pick up the Ultimate. We were back on the road, with Ulti in tow, by 11.30am. From here, we drove straight through to Coolgardie and camped for the ...
Tankstopp
meinem Uebermut, meiner Experimentierfreudigkeit auszuprobieren wie weit ich mit einer Tankfuellung kommen wuerde ... naja ich erreichte aber dann doch noch ein Oertchen namens Bullabulling, welches eigentlich nur aus einem Haus besteht vor dem zwei ...
Day 4 - Southern Cross to Coolgardie
... trains - thanks to Richard and Eric in our support vehicles, they kept us informed with the two way and the "beeps". The Coolgardie Gospel Church put on a very nice evening meal for us and were friendly and hospitable. We were all pretty pooped ...
One door closes and another opens...
... me... Suddenly a figure appears from behind one of the bushes and it's Alistair. I hop into his car and he takes me to Coolgardie and my new home. I meet the guys who live their and go for a stroll around the tiny goldfields town on the main highway from ...
Coolgardie - Ora Banda.
... of 800 in 1898 and several were recruited from here for WW1. Kunanalling is located about 32 km north of the town of Coolgardie. From here it was a short drive to the resilient Ora Banda Hotel. While Ora Banda has been a virtual ghost town, ...
Coolgardie
Coolgardie is a real slow old gold mining town with a lot of room to move, nothing much here anymore, everything is in ...
Still no gold!!
Spent the night at Coolgardie, Stretch got chatting to a fella at the Pub and he told him where he could try prospecting, so next morning he went out on the hunt for the big one, but we are still ...
Stop over to visit Ash's relative in Coolgardie
We stayed at a few camps from Norseman to Wangan Hills and even though we remember the camps themselves we forget their names and I had to go back and recheck. There's been some really nice bush camps, some with facilities like bins, ...
The end of the Nullabor
... legs, we turned back, and continued along the Nullabor, til we reached the end, Norseman. We headed north for 200km to Coolgardie only to be met with hurricane force winds where you couldn't see 20m infront of the car because of the red dirt blowing ...
Back to Norseman
From Leonora it was back to Norseman and send the registration papers to Queensland to be sorted out as unbeknown to me I have been driving the van for 5 months and am not the legal owner...oops! So with the paperwork sent I waited around to hear from my ...
Car Repair in Coolgardie
This is already my third time in my favourite outback town Coolgardie. Because Kevin, the mechanic in Coolgardie, still hadn't fixed the car I had to go there again with Merle. We stayed two nightswith Gordon, our favourite otback mate, former millionaire ...
Lunch and fuel stop
We were advised via CB radio that a parade and local show was happening in the town so Grt Eastern Hwy was closed and we were detoured around the town centre. We fueled up and drove arround the town to a dirt and gravel stop 52 km east of town.nad had ...
Surprisingly Captivating
We were expecting to do a kind of "drive-thru" visit to the WA goldfields but we got ourselves "hooked". The tales of dreams fulfilled and dashed, great exploits, wonderful architecture proved to be quite fascinating. The water piped into Kalgoorlie not ...
We're on the road again
... was a small child of about six. I know this because I have a polaroid of my sister and I riding a camel, so I know nothing of Coolgardie. Every town we roll through I wish we could stop. What lives were lived here? What does the town feel like? Who lived ...
Old Coolgardie
we stayed at the Coolgardie Tourist Village overnight ok park their were some nice old buildings in the main street ...
Good Day to go for a drive
... hot weather again but the morning was beautiful. Took some nice pictures of the outback on our 40km ride from Coolgardie to Gnarlbine rock. Shawn told us there was not much in Coolgardie but the drive was interesting. He also said ...
Day 1 and we're in holiday mode
... a quick morning tea stop at Meckering (lovely clean toilet block and friendly general store) then drove straight through to Coolgardie - a total of around 550 kms for the day Once at Coolgardie we checked out the fabulous local history museum, housed ...
Prospecting for gold
... Tourist Park for two weeks it gives us a chance ti catch up with people that we know here.I am writing this blog from the Coolgardie Tourist Park and we will be here for two weeks.We have been out detecting and have not found any gold.We are going to ...
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