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Kalgoorlie Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Kalgoorlie, Australia
A tribute to Gordon Wass - Brisbane City Council
... not long before I left in May. As soon as he saw me Gordon remarked: "Hey mate. You won't need a jacket in Kalgoorlie mate." The temperature on nightshift at BHP was usually in single figures. I always wore four layers of clothing and had the heater ...
Thars gold in tham thar hills
... 40 degree heat, smashing open rocks and finding smaller rocks inside we decided we'd had enough and should head for the proper goldfield. Kalgoorlie is home to the Super Pit. Not a superhero who can dig holes fast but an open caste gold mine about 80km ...
Fahrt nach Kalgoorlie
Von Esperance ging es heute über Norseman nach Kalgoorlie. Dort angekommen sagte uns die Dame vom Campingplatz, daß die Super Pit abends wenn die Sonne untergeht besonders toll aussieht, also haben Patricia und Mia sich kurz im Pool ...
The Indian Pacific
... ; I didn't see much other than the train station because I was afraid of missing it leaving, and being stranded for three days in Kalgoorlie. The most amazing thing though was that I had been on the train for eleven and a half hours and I was ...
Kalgoorlie, the end of the road...trip
... . After a quick 2 night stay in Perth and a day trip to Freemantle we headed out on the train to Kalgoorlie. Now Kalgoorlie is something of unique settlement, an old mining town which is now dominated by the 'superpit' and enormous hole in the ...
Great Tour with Gold Rush Tours
... turning camel trains and even caravans.] The tour I went on was a great introduction to the city of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, exploring the magnificent architecture of the 1890's along the cities' main streets, and learning of the region's fascinating ...
Gold Town!
... water to the city’s residents. In general water is potable in Australia but this tap water is really disgusting. The streets of Kalgoorlie are wide and empty so there are no traffic jams as there are maximum five cars at a time on one street. Well ...
Gold City
... town. The information centre in Menzies was very helpful and we have come away from there with lots of info on the tours around Kalgoorlie - so we are planning which ones we might do. The super pit which was begun by Alan Bond - but not finished by him - ...
Red, soil, hot, hot, hot, on the road to gold
Today we headed out early as this was a driving day to Kalgoorlie. Following a large white water pipeline, we drove on through places like Grass Patch and Salmon Gums until we came to the mining community of Norseman. This community, known as ...
Fresh fruit and veg!!
... lunch-time, set up and did some much needed grocery shopping. Stretch completed the 17th & 18th hole of golf at the Kalgoorlie Golf Club (what a magnificent course, not a year old yet, owned by the council, have spent $20 million so far and about to ...
Indian Pacific to Adelaide
... and it continues to draw me back to it. For the balance of today we will be backtracking over territory I covered to Kalgoorlie. We took a wide swing North and followed the Swan and Avon River Valleys back to Northam and got glimpses of river ...
I Feel the Earth Move....
... a 3 or something on the rumbling ground scale, nothing serious, however with the amount of old and uncharted shaft goldmines under Kalgoorlie it did worry me somewhat that it is in an earthquake prone area. anything of a decent size and the place will ...
Indoor Swimming and Good Hair Days
... the whole time I lived here I never noticed how chlorinated the tap water is. As soon as I got to my brother's house in Kalgoorlie I really needed a shower so I turned the taps on and got ready to jump right in. As the water heated up the familar smell of ...
Kalgoorlie Miner update.
Hi Guys! One of the TA's (Steve) was feeling hungry the other night and decided to eat some KFC that he found in a pie warmer oven. Now, anyone would have left it alone thinking it belonged to someone else. Steve was told by a workmate that it ...
Kalgoorlie - big and rich mining town
... remote towns by a long water pipe. The project was commissioned in 1896 and was completed in 1903. The pipeline finishes in Kalgoorlie at Mount Charlotte Reservoir. Interestingly, it takes one to two weeks for the water to come from Perth to Kalgoorlie. ...
It's all over folks!
I've finally finished my stint at BHP. I applied for an early release as this job will run for another two weeks and I just didn't have the time. The longer I stayed there, the more harm I did my chances of a longer term role up North West WA. I've ...
Kalgoorlie
Moved on to Kalgoorlie today and it got pretty hot 36 degrees. Typical mining town, saw a blast at the Super Pit. The pictures cannot capture just how huge this hole is. The off shoots of the mining industry are tremendous, the industrial areas just seem ...
Vom Ozean ins Outback
... zur langen Reise ins rote Zentrum an. Ziel war es, die rund 400 Kilometer in die drittgrösste Stadt von Western Australia, Kalgoorlie Boulder, zurückzulegen. Da unterwegs kaum Sehenswertes auf uns wartete, fuhren wir – abgesehen von ein paar ...
Shock Horror in Kalgoorlie!!!!!!!!!!
... -honoured tradition of skimpies (scantily dressed bar staff) were to be banned. Here's an extract from the local Kalgoorlie Miner newspaper:- "Yesterday heralded a great turning point in the history of Kalgoorlie as police began their crackdown on the ...
City of Gold
... with the presentation of the Links Golf cap to Lesley and then both Mike and Lesley received their certificates at the Kalgoorlie Visitor’s Centre. Quite an achievement and well earned. Margaret had a difficult time juggling her two jobs as caddy ...
Weird statues and a ghost town
Weird statues and a ghost town - 3 April 2009 Don't you just love art and artists??!!! Out in the middle of the back of beyond are the Antony Gormley statues - 51 steel statues based on the 51 inhabitants of Menzies which have been erected in a vast ...
3 nights at Kalgoorlie/Boulder
... ;Over the couple of days in Boulder/Kalgoorlie we had an interesting time looking at the beautiful old historic buildings of Kalgoorlie but sadly the ones in Boulder had suffered from the recent earthquake so there was scaffolding around them all and most ...
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 ...
Kalgoorlie - Car Problems.
... had a population of 51 plus Lenny. We were somewhat amused by this as our brother in law Lenny lives in Bullfinch. We reached Kalgoorlie early evening and visited some acquaintances, but no bed was offered, so we camped in the Pajero. Next day we were up ...
Day 4: Eucla to Kalgoorlie
... many more trees (mainly eycalyptus). There were also salt plains and I saw two wild camels in the bush. Arrived at Kalgoorlie around 3.00pm (two hours behind NSW time). First impression: A redneck wonderland, although over the next two days ...
Cool in Kalgoorlie
... to the coast to see the family and they are making great plans for the weekend. In Kalgoorlie we visited the Super Pit Lookout. This is Australia'a largest gold mine and still getting bigger. The mammoth mining trucks look like tiny ...
Kalgoorlie - gold and sheep
... feel about a hole the size of Texas being dug on what used to be their land. We had a look around Kalgoorlie which has incredible architecture dating back to the late 1890s when gold was discovered here and the wealth was immense. ...
If it wasn't for gold, this would not exist
Kalgoorlie, gold mining town. This Super Pit still makes $2M a day. Huge machinery is at work, the main source of income and employment. Prostitution seems legal in this town, guided tours through brothels are offered in the afternoon. ...
My Ride in the Police Car
... with skimpies by 7am, drunk two pints of larger by 9am and hungover by midday. That sentence may sound like I have fully embraced Kalgoorlie life and become a complete bogan, although the order of events and times is a bit mixed up. It is much more ...
Motorhomes everywhere
Welcome to Kalgoorlie. We have been at the Rally site since Monday. Somewhere around 800 motorhomes on site. We traveled from Leonora with some motorhomers, Colin, June, Bob, Rose, Leon & Brenda who adopted us at the Leonora sports ground. ...