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Kalgoorlie Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Kalgoorlie, Australia
Huge mine, nice town & the Nullarbor Links
Day 96 – September 22 Written by Stephen Kalgoorlie Into the tourist information centre to firstly find out what there is to do in town for the day and secondly to pay for my green fees for the Nullarbor Links. The 18 holes of this course are ...
A great experiance
Kalgoorlie-Boulder Gold and more gold has made this town incredibly prosperous and is still contributing work opportunities for many people. The super pit is enormous and a great example of efficient mining when you combine hundreds of small operations ...
Kalgoorlie in gold country - Blog 6
Blog 6 - Kalgoorlie and York: gold and wheat country We drove 400 km north from Esperance to Kalgoorlie ("Kal"), the original WA gold-rush town. The roads of the SW had few cars but lots of road trains (trucks with 2 or usually 3 trailers ...
Kalgoorlie
... . These only happen about 3-4 times a week so we timed it just right. Tuesday we concentrated on the town of Kalgoorlie visiting Mount Charlotte Reservoir to begin with. We had a good view of the town and surrounding countryside from the lookout ...
Gold Dust
... Kalgoorlie has some amazing old buildings, the architecture dates back to the gold rush days and lots have been restored. Kalgoorlie was discovered in January 1893, when prospectors Patrick (Paddy) Hannan, Tom Flanagan, and Dan O'Shea were ...
Yup we stayed 5 star
Decided on this trip we would not do the camping thing. We did see all of Kalgoorlie . Friday night we had very nice Chinese. Saturday we visted the Mine Super Pit and found some caravan parks to stay on the wau=y back from Alice springs trip. Saturday ...
Kalgoorlie Motor Home Rally
... lookout, and then up to the Superpit just on dark. The driver was very knowledgeable and we learnt a lot of Kalgoorlie's history, which also included the infamost brothels! We had our OH&S induction meeting the next morning, which is compulsory ...
Kalgoorlie : Red & Gold
... work.Yes employees still get paid during this time. Another tour we did was a tour of the last remaining working brothel in Kalgoorlie.in their heyday there were 25 brothels in Hay street a main street in the CBD of Kalgoorlie.The Madam was very ...
sunrise and troppo
... and drive in. oh, yeah, the attraction. Uncle Coota is the nickname given to our CEO. its abit of a joke at hte pub in kalgoorlie and perth when we go out for drinks and someone asks whos paying. if its on the company card, "Uncle Cootas got this round" ...
DAY 134 - FRIDAY 5TH NOVEMBER – ESPERANCE T
... worries. We stopped for lunch in Norseman where they had a playground for the kids to expel some energy and then it was onto Kalgoorlie. We arrived about 4.30pm and checked into the caravan park. As we were checking in the kids found a brochure for an all ...
DAY 135 - SATURDAY 6TH NOVEMBER – KALGOORLI
... tour. From the Pit we went and had a look at a couple of shops in the main street of Boulder then back into Kalgoorlie (a whole 3kms!) to walk down their main street. There are several places here that have scaffolding around them, including the Town ...
Days 23, 24, 25, 26 & 27
... poor guy had never changed a fan belt & didn’t have a manual to tell him how. We then headed of to Kalgoorlie via Norseman. The stop in Norseman was short but sweet, found a great info centre, the kids found a great playground, ...
Kalgoorie; not your average tourist attraction
Monday Woke up at 2:00am hearing airplanes overhead. Figured that is was just jet lag but after hearing a second one realized that it was just the International flights leaving Perth. Got back to sleep quickly just to wake up again at ...
Heading east hot & windy
... ;Australia's worst earthquakes Oct. 1968), Cunderdin great museum detailing the water pipe line pumping stations between Perth and Kalgoorlie. Water pipe line one of worlds greatest engineering feats competed in 1903 at Kalgoorlie, water was so ...
Easter
... Great Ocean Drive, along the cliff tops on the south coast of Esperance. Gloriously beautiful. We decided we couldn't be this close to Kalgoorlie & not see it, and made a run for Norseman (the actual west end of the trip across the Nullarbor, if we ...
Kalgoorlie
Our day to look around Kalgoorlie. We started by going to the Royal Flying Doctor Service base at the airport to get a photo for Brendan's hunt, then had a drive around Boulder. Went to the lookout over the giant pit where they are blasting and ...
Jetzt gehts los !
ostern verbrachten wir mit ernst in perth. er reiste aus sidney an. mit dem schiff gings nach rottnest island. wir fuhren mit dem velo um die insel. die quakkas (wie kleine kängurus ) sind sehr zutraulich (und herzig !!). einige hatten mit dem velo ...
Sandy's Eco-Travel Blog
I work for a new exciting eco-travel business as a Corporate Tactics Assistant . Articulation is the name of a really moody salmon-crested cockatoo I live with. ...
Kalgoorlie
... ;s amazing what a few degrees can do) while I went up the street and organized some film processing. Ahh yes! Kalgoorlie is an interesting town – I had forgotten. A typical mining town with attractions to match in the pubs and up ...
Kalgoorlie
... and quiet, it was very tempting to stay longer. The Super Pit (or Big Hole, as it is sometimes referred to) in Kalgoorlie, was the brainchild of failed entrepreneur Alan Bond. His idea was to buy up all the existing leases along the fabulously rich ...
Our Nullarbor Golf Links Adventure.
... , something different for this blog..... just pictures. This tells the story of our golf game across the Nullarbor from Ceduna SA to Kalgoorlie WA Hope it gives you a bit of a laugh "At Zelk's expense, hehe" 1) Click on first picture to get a ...
last night in Kalgoorlie
... a high note knowing that soon enough we'll be going camping, or is it caravanning(?) round Australia ~~ Have included a couple of photo's tonight, of the events of today, and leaving with a beautiful sunset. bye from Kalgoorlie/Boulder ...
going back in time
... , Monday we are off to Hyden, visit Wave Rock and Wednesday we'll be heading home. I can honestly say, it's been a wonderful, exciting and learning experience here in Kalgoorlie/Boulder, and look forward to the next part of our trip. ...
second day at Kalgoorlie
... 's and 'her' girls, it was not what I expected, but nevertheless I found it interesting as it was all part of the Kalgoorlie history. My views: The toilets are clean (toilet humour) at the caravan park (holiday park for our American readers) and ...
Wave Rock
... should we have met with mishap. We hit the highway again just west of Yellowdine, fueled up and then headed into Kalgoorlie, arriving just after 6pm. All the caravan parks were shut so the one that answered our phone call got our business and ...