This pub on our pub crawl has had an interesting past that involves the publican who was a bent copper, a murder, a bikie gang, a bombing of the pub and the demise of the publican in a car explosion.
Kalgoorlie & Esperance May 7th 2009 Our four days at Kalgoorlie were very busy, we did a 200 km outback pub crawl that took us to some unusual pubs as the pictures show. The circuit took us north towards Laverton and back through Coolgardie mostly on red dirt roads.
The Kalgoorlie Super Pit is a huuuge open cut gold mine that operates 24/7. They extracts gold at the rate of 16 ounces per ton of rock. I tried to count the numbe ... read more
Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Esperance Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more
Bob retired at the end of September 08 and with Jacquie are planned to travel to Australia's west coast leaving in April 09 and returning in October 09.
We have purchased a Jayco Stirling 21 van with every extra bit you can think of to tow behind our V9 Petrol/Gas Landcruiser.
Bob is a pilot and we have see most of Australia in a light aircraft so now it's time to do it the slow way.
We intend to travel west via Port Lincoln across the nullabour to Esprance, Albany, Perth, Broome, Darwin and then home... full info