Blogs from Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 4

Monday 10thJune 2013. Well, here we are back in the big west island. Our first two nights in the Midland Budget Motel were fine, fortunately we weren’t expecting anything flash, and we weren’t disappointed. The rooms though were perfectly adequate, clean and recently renovated. All accommodation is expensive here in Perth. These units were attached to the Commercial Tavern, a workingman’s pub – the only females aside from me, were the Irish bar girls and the cook (the owner’s Mum). Yes, and all pubs seem to have one - the local p*%#head, a Maori fella who wanted to serenade me with Pokarekare Ana. I didn’t let on that I knew the words, I would probably still be there! Tuesday 11th June - up and on the train into Perth and Fremantle with the early commuters, where ... read more

Day 58 – Sunday 26th August – Perth to Boondi Rock in Goldfields National Park (40km W of Calgardie) It had been another cool night and the tent was damp with dew outside and condensation inside, so we left the tent to dry out while we went to pick up Luke and watch Rory play in his under 10 footy match. We left the oval at around 10.30 after having said our farewells to the Dawsons. We needed to get fuel and some shopping before we left so drove to the local shopping centre. Coincidentally today is the first day of legal Sunday trading in WA so there was nothing standing in our way to get what we needed - apart from the supermarket not opening until 11am. Back at the caravan park the ... read more

Geo: -30.7477, 121.472Todays challenge - To navigate our way through Perth's maze of freeways without taking a wrong turn.We depart Perth at 7.30 as we will be driving into the early morning sun. Perth farewells us with heavy rain and peak hour traffic as the Tom Tom tries to navigate me through five different freeways before heading us out of town. It tells me to bear left however there are four lanes bearing left so I stick to the middle lane. "Recalculating it blurts out". Dam it, I have failed the challenge already. Back on track we head underground through a very long tunnel then reappear only to drive through bumper to bumper traffic and miles of roadworks. We still have not seen a sign to Kalgoorlie. One hour later we spot a sign that indicates ... read more

This Blog entry covers our stay in the Heart of the Goldfields from the 14th to the 19th November. There are 53 photos with this blog and I cannot (for some insane reason get them in order!) so this entry is over three pages not two, Additionally, you can only enter the third page from the bottom of the first page, this page. So I hope you get to see all the pics and you understand what I am saying (questionable!) I hope I can fix it soon and remove this message. Where do we start !!! What a magnificent place this is. Full of history, lots to do and fantastic shopping, the likes of which could only be rivalled in a major capital city, and everything is so big! I guess a bit of history... ... read more

On Saturday we all headed in to Kalgoorlie on our way out to an old mining town where there is an old pub to have some lunch. On the way Sarah hit a bird with her truck and we didn't see it come flying out or anything so we stopped and Jason being the brave guy that he is got out to have a look. I decided to get out too to see what happened. Sarah was a bit scared. The bird was still alive and looking well but managed to get himself on the other side of the grill. The pictures explain it better then I can! Jason nudged it out with a stick and it hopped away happy to still be alive. We had lunch in the old town and then stopped by an ... read more