How do you sum up Kalgoorlie? 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 registering with 10 recruitment agencies and also looking for accommodation...

Grosses schwarzes Loch!!! SUPER PIT! 2,5km lang 1,3km breit und 350m tief... wirklich gross....

Bon soir, et wilkommen. Im currently sitting in a tent after sampling the local nightlife in Kalgoorlie. The temperature is mild and ive been drinking tooheys extra dry. Its been our most tumultuous couple of days so far. The last entry in Perth was followed by a heavy duty row which nearlt saw Aaron hurled into the swan river by me and Al. thin...

I set off from Perth YHA for the third and final time. Strangely I felt a little sad about it, even though I didn't really intend on staying in Perth as long as I did. I'd settled in there a bit, knew a few people to chat to and a few of the bods behind the front desk knew me by name. Suppose it's just like Cheers, sometimes you wanna go where (...

Unless you've experienced the flies in this corner of the world you won't know what I'm referring to. They may look like your typical garden variety, but their nasty vile behaviour is far from what you'd expect from such an insignificant and harmless looking creature. Like many of the other creatures in Australia they seem to have evolved way be...

'Where you from darlin'?' 'Ireland.' 'Ahhh, so you play the bagpipes an all that?' After almost a month of knuckling down, life here in Kal has been... how d'you say... almost imaginary. A lot has happened and yet there's almost nothing to report. In the grand scheme of things my time here has been the most uneventful so far, yet it's been one o...

Kalgoorlie first came in being from a gold strike. Paddy Hannah was searching further west from the existing strikes for new gold. One morning after stopping for the night the story goes that his tethered horse had uncovered sizeable gold nuggets. Within a week 1400 hopefuls were there. This has resulted in what is known as the Golden Mile and K...

A three plus day journey by train, across one of the straightest and most barren stretches of land on earth. To help pass the time I read Bill Bryson's "Down Under", and laugh out loud in agreement with him that the music on this train is definitely "songs I hoped I'd never hear again." I look through the windows at the great Nullabor Plain, san...

My second tour of Kalgoorlie has been pretty cushty so far with no major dramas bar the lack of work in december, but 2 jobs since have rectified that. That is until i decided to change my flights schedule. A month ago i called Qantas to revise my itinerary... "what itinerary would that be sir?" inquired the feminine antipodean accent at the oth...

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 ruddy great tarrantiala sat on it giving me a rather bemused look. smell it? i was sitting in it...