Blogs from Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 6

While Sarah and Jason were at work I headed up to the Red Hill Lookout which is in Kambalda. You can see the big salt lakes from up there. Kambalda is split into two parts, Kambalda East and Kambalda West. I did a little drive around to check out the place. I picked Sarah up from work and then we picked up the girls from daycare. On Saturday we decided to head into Kalgoorlie to do some shopping. Jason was working this weekend. So Sarah, me, Lucinda and Isobel had a girls day shopping around the town. We stopped at Mt. Charlotte lookout which is also where the town's water supply is piped into. Lucinda had a great time with my camera taking tons of pictures. We had lunch in town at the cafe which was ... read more

Day 78 We bust through the doors of the Woolworths like some cowboys with smoke billowing and people running to hide… well not quite more like we enter quietly, I pretend to have magic and get the doors to open… sigh.. one day. LOL. We restock well this time, eggs, steak and potatoes. Woot woot were eating good the next few days. But for now we are off and running towards the start of the Holland track, but first of course we get gas at a steal of a deal, only 1.30/L with food fuel and ice we set out. The road is a nice wide gravel road till the start of the track and we motor about 70km form town and pull off on a track and hide in the bushes about 1km from the ... read more

Day 76 Kalgoorlie is in site as we plow down the muddy roads, the truck is caked in mud I cant see out the side windows.. the mirrors are coated.. the koala is soaked and not looking to impressed.. but that’s just to bad for the best seat in the house… I find a steep hill and side track a bit for a climb but decide to turn around about ¾ the way up since the next chunk was a rough stair case of rocks and we didn’t feel like dropping the pressure in the tires. About another 15km down the road I spot a lizard, don’t know what kind. But he was pretty big and I almost ran him over, he was not to impressed. As he opened his mouth the threaten me when I ... read more

Barry can actually say he has now officially golfed the World's Longest Golf Course which is 1,365 km long. When we were researching our trip to Australia Barry found this course on the Internet. It's called Nullarbor Links, the Real Australian Golf Course. It had just opened in October of 2009 and it caught his attention. The golf course passes through the Nullarbor Plains between Ceduna in the east and Kalgoorlie in the west (near Perth). A lot of the road passes close to the ocean , the Great Australian Bight with incredible views, but the rest passes for hundreds of kilometres through nothing but scrub arid-desert land. The area only gets about seven inches of rain a year. A lot of accidents happen because people find the drive mind-numbing and get drowsy; that had residents ... read more

Hi all I am updating this tonight as tomorrow we leave Kalgoorlie after 5 nights here, and head off to the Nullabor for Easter, where we will probably be out of range. We plan to reach Ceduna about Monday. From Norseman, we drove north, stopping at Coolgardie for a look around. The streets are very wide, as they needed to be able to turn camel trains around - camels don't turn easily! We tracked down artist Jackie Mills and looked through her gallery - we had seen work she had done for Steve and Lou (where we left our van in Perth). At the museum opposite we found information about Rick's relation Jim Larcombe, who found the largest gold nugget ever discovered in WA as a 16 year old in 1931. Named the Golden Eagle, it ... read more