Wednesday the 14th of September 2022 – Kalgoorlie, Western Australia

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The Kalgoorlie Tramcar Tour, with Susan hanging out the window!

Today was our last day in Kalgoorlie, we leave tomorrow morning on the long trek east and home. We’ve done a number of activities in the 4 days here and finished off our stay with a great Thai meal in Hannah St, the Main Street in Kalgoorlie, good choice Sue! What surprises me is that both Kalgoorlie and the sister town nearby Boulder, have so many business and shop fronts closed. With so much gold mining occurring in the local area its hard to fathom why this is the case, maybe COVID but WA didn’t have the same degree of lockdowns that the eastern states had. With the Superpit closing around 2035, the future does not bode well for both towns. Maybe new technology will assist but I’m sure the level of employment in the mines will not be the same.

The council chambers at the Boulder Town Hall. A very young QE 2 overlooks the chambers.
The Framehead of the Mining Museum overlooks Kalgoorlie’s Main Street
The basement of the Mining museum contains a proper bank vault which houses over $4,000,000 in gold, either in nugget form or jewellery as such as the brooches above. All gold is from the local goldfields.
The British Arms Hotel the narrowest 2 story pub in Australia. Now used as a community centre and museum.
Outside the iconic Exchange Hotel

So for the next 5 days we will be travelling across the Nullarbor, free camping along the cliffs of the Great Australian Bight and hoping that we may see Whales as they cross the ocean very near the Australian coast.

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