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Kalgoorlie Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Kalgoorlie, Australia
It ain't half hot Mum!
G'Day from Oz! We've arrived in a place called Kalgoorlie, in the heart of the Australian goldfields. We arrived in the middle of a thunderstorm and it's still raining and cool now so we've taken the time to update our blog. We aren't complaining about ...
L'outback du sud-ouest australien !
... ) und letzlich Wave Rock, auf dem Rueckweg nach Perth. Bis Bald Cyril Hi eveybody, hello from Kalgoorlie-Boulder, a gold mining city in the Outback from Wester Australia. Programme: it's really hot (45 degree !), visit from the Super Pit (an open-cut gold ...
FINALLY updating the travel blog
... for a little play around but haven’t found anything but rubbish... Bugger I wanted to become rich FAST!!! I have to say I like Kalgoorlie, it’s just a shame the beach is so far away or we’d probably stay longer :o) Breanna has been ...
From the desert to the brothel...
So today I leave the outback... I get up early and make the most of the free internet and have a last chat with Alex and Sam and then they head off to work and I gather up the remainder of my stuff. This place has become my home, and even though I have ...
Just Passing Thru.... (part 1)
... of Heinz spagetti by mistake. Lorna was not pleased. Still it was a pleasant trip and we had the excitement of a stop in the city of Kalgoorlie to look forward to. We got in here at about 10.30pm and were due to leave at 1am. To fill the time there's a ...
Such is life ...
... , innerhalb von 10 Tagen sollten dann alle aufgefuehrten Maengel behoben werden oder der Wagen verliert seine "Fahrerlaubnis". In Kalgoorlie sind der Polizei anscheind die GELBEN STICKER ausgegangen, denn hier fahren die Autos teilweise ohne Tueren und ...
All aboard
... quick. We'd made up some time and were an hour ahead but after over an hours wait for some freight trains we rolled in to Kalgoorlie a bit behind schedule. Not that it mattered. It was about 11.30 and everywhere of use was shut. I was hoping find a ...
Sh**t a brick!
So here i am, minding my own business sieving for silver in the outback on a glorious day, the only person for miles around. Imagine my surprise then, when dipping my had in to a sample bag for more earth to put through my sieve, it reappeared with a ...
from a Cook to a peice of Gold
... were back and Nancy was still snorting as she blew a couple of flies out of her nose, and we were off again towards Kalgoorlie the gold town we arrived there after a day of looking out the window spotting Wedged tail eagles and a few Emu's (pronounced ...
Fridays... same the world over
So, friday. I'm at work... get in and spend the first hour making a brew and avoiding going on site. finally cave in and work til 11, and have a half hour break. then, go back out and find that the rig has broken down. again. so, i try and keep myself ...
Preparation
May 5Th 2012, day 1 Well I got after horrid night sleep, caravan park light and tents don't mix, it was daylight all night coffee club for brekky, had a brekky wrap and a coffee, next door was Woolworth's, got some supplies, then went to the airport to ...
Red Dust...
MY God, they weren't kidding when they said there's a lot of red dust in Kalgoorlie and not much else.. not had chance to check the rest of the town yet, but i can tell they were right about the ...
Kalgoorlie
Passed through Kalgoorlie and decided to take the long scenic route south around the border! Let's just say lots of driving, ham sandwiches, bathroom breaks (which I'm notorious for) and lots of Filippo peeing in (as he would say) 'the nature' ...
Kalgoorlie, WA
... width as they were back then to accomodate the Camel trains that the miners used to use. This is the only place in Australia with working brothels, which share the same street as the backpacker hostels, and most pubs have 'skimpies' to serve you. ...
The drive to Kal - 600km into the desert
... full of heritage buildings and hotels and bars, and an array of shops all lining the one main street of town. Actually Kalgoorlie is, I think the biggest outback town and it sure was substantially bigger than anywhere else we had passed through today. ...
Museums and mines
... , we grabbed a quick lunch from a cafe and decided to take a drive through the town of boulder and some other parts of Kalgoorlie. We visited a famous pub where the miners actually purpose built a mine shaft up into the pub, coming up right in the ...
Out in the Wilderness!
... get on the road early, but this didn’t happen! We hit the road around 12ish & made it to this side of Kalgoorlie that evening! I’ll have to say, Cocklebiddy was an experience as we would never get out to such an isolated place in Ireland ...
Kalgoorlie
Spent a day and a night in Kalgoorlie which was once the major gold mining town in Australia and as a result has a well developed large town, although many of the buildings resembled something out of the wild west! The streets are really wide (made so ...
Do they have doll ques over here?
After 3 weeks of searching and public holidays i finally got mysoef a job, working in sample prep at an Assay lab in town. Basically it involves breaking up rocks for analysis, to see if it's full of gold or other precious minerals. The job itself was ...
Gold
... cave rock, more beautiful than wave rock and then to Burra rock and the dam on the rock for a refreshing swim. We left Kalgoorlie in the afternoon after Jack and Bec had been out prospecting for gold and I with the girls had finished a number of ...
Baby it's warm outside
Inspired by the recent heatwave that's hit Kalgoorlie, here's my adaptation of Ray Charles' "Baby It's cold outside". On my way home from work at 5pm, it was 41 degrees c in the shade (nearly fifty in the sun). overnight temps of 28. it's TOO ...
7.24pm - Wagons Roll
... was interesting enough, but not really worth the $24 I paid for it. That’s why I’ve decided not to do the Kalgoorlie one this evening – trundling around on a bus in the dark is hardly seeing the sights anyway. Still, I got some nice ...
Christmas in Kal
It's been a while since i've added to this dear travelogue and that's mostly because since i got back into Kal, i've done pretty much bugger all. Don't go looking for work 2 weeks before christmas, because it ain't happening. So, purse strings were ...
More drama in Kalgoorlie
... Trades Assistant called Brian. Now Brian had worked in the industry for many years across the country on many sites and had been in Kalgoorlie for the past three years. You could say that he was my Mr. Miyagi or my Obi-Wan Kenobi. He'd started teaching ...
Junailua
... km. Myöskään asutusta ei radan varrella ihan hirveästi ollut: Ainoa isompi kaupunki matkan varrella oli kaivoskaupunki Kalgoorlie, johon tultiin puoli yhdentoista aikaan illalla, ja paikka oli pelottavan kuollut. Juna pysähtyi siellä reilun tunnin, ...
The Adventures of KalBoy
... Probably 30 pubs and 3 brothels is a good start. I haven't been slack in updating this infernal blog. Since arriving in Kalgoorlie it's been full-on. I really haven't had time to scratch myself in the last few weeks. The first week was spent ...
Der Goldrausch hat uns
... die Nullarbor Wüste wären wir sehr gespannt gewesen, doch so haben wir immerhin die Möglichkeit, die Goldgräberstadt Kalgoorlie-Boulder etwas auszukundschaften. Wir nutzen die Gelegenheit und schauen uns noch einmal das Super Pit an. Wie erwartet ist ...
DAY 37 - NORSEMAN TO KALGOORLIE-BOULDER - SUPERPIT
... PARK, NORSEMAN (the most incredible shower of my life so far!) 2. MIDDLETON BEACH, ALBANY 3. PORONGURUP RANGE 4. DISCOVERY HOLIDAY PARK, KALGOORLIE-BOULDER (wide blast area and skin tingingly good, like a massage, sublime!) 5. PEACEFUL BAY ...
Another two bite the dust!
Two more of my team members have been shown the door at BHP but for different reasons. John (Boilermaker) and Paul (Boilermaker) were given their marching orders while I was on my days off recently. John registered a positive alcohol reading before ...