Exchange Hotel Kalgoorlie

... interesting I have seen in Oz so far; impressive colonial style hotels, banks and train stations, and a huge, wide main street (apparently it had to be big enough to turn the camel trains that carried the water in from Perth!).

Now here's a good story we read about. Gold was found in Kalgoorlie but not water. So when the settlers first arrived the only way to get water was to bring it all the way from Perth (some 650 Kilometres) on camel back ...

... airport. We were lucky in that one of their two operational planes was about to take off just as we arrived, so we were able to view it taxiing, prior to its take off. An informative dvd was shown, followed by the opportunity to spend time in the small museum. An interesting insight into what must be a vital part of live in the outback, and we think that we were able to recall a tv programme from many, many years ago in our childhood ...

... 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 on during the day when I was trying to sleep. On three occasions I had ice on my car's windscreen. Seems to be jacket weather to me Gordo. Number Four I'm here to tell you that Gordon is the biggest tightarse I've ever met. I've mentioned briefly in this ...

... the hall of fame where Salud tried panning for gold, no luck though. We saw a gold pouring demonstration and went underground to an old mine. The lift to go down was so tiny you could only squeeze 4 people in it at a time, not a nice experience if you are afraid of small spaces. We ended our outback trip by visiting a ghost town. It was quite sad to see how a town can simply fade away to nothing. All that was left were the street names and 3 tombs at the cemetery.

... stretch our les but I'm not sure I'd recommend it. Got about an hour of unbroken sleep when we got back on the train before it left Kalgoorlie, but the rest of the night we were shaken about like nobody's business. And we were thinking they might slow down overnight so we could sleep - no chance. The funniest thing was when the manager came on the speaker in the morning and said she'd hoped we'd had a restful night - my response isn't printable!

... connection of steel on bone, a good five or six clean breaks to his ever so delicate skull. What made it more insane was that above the table-line, you could see that the guy dishing out the punishment was thoughtful enough to keep the pint he was holding upright the whole time he put the boot in, all leisurely like as if he was eating a sandwich in front of the telly. After the final foot went in he began jumping up and down on the guys head while he screamed like a mad ...

... here. Just come to Kal. Skimpies (Daniel, READ THIS) Another fine aspect of this corner of the world is how they've managed to maintain some of the more risqué traditions, like the thriving brothels on Hay Street and the many bars that take more than the full advantage of employing 'Skimpies'. Skimpies are young, attractive, topless barmaids who walk around in their tiny sexy little g-strings pulling beer, bending over every few minutes, chatting ...

... omkring en golfbold storrelse og saa er det endda kun i hver 6. der overhovedet er guld med. Ret vildt.
I kalgoorlie var vi ogsaa inde og besoge The Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia. RFDS daekker hele AUS og er der for at hjaelpe alle i outbacken der har brug for det. De kommer ud og laver alm. klinik besog 1 gang om maaneden, da de jo ikke lige kan komme til byen. Kun ved 20% af deres flyvninger har de en laege med, dvs kun ved alvorlige tilfaelde. De resterende ...