Day 64: Esperance to Kalgoorlie-Boulder.

Monday 27/08/2012 Day 64: Esperance to Kalgoorlie-Boulder.

Early morning rain. We woke up to cloudy skies and a cool breeze. The Esperance Bay was now gray. We packed up and headed off in light drizzle. The weather got nicer as we got closer to Norseman. We passed through some little towns and by some salt lakes. The windscreen took out a squadron of gnats. At the driver change-over at Norseman, we used good old coles windex and a paper towel and Amanda was able to see clearly. The roads got better as we passed a dozen mines, some getting road works to improve the turn in for the road-trains. We set up at Discovery Caravan Park Boulder, the sites are big, toilets and showers are “American size”, lots of grey nomads, lucky we booked our site yesterday, the park filled up very quick. Had a quick lunch and off to Kalgoorlie 4km’s away. We confirmed our Superpit tour and wandered around Town. We picked up a pick & magnet for the Nullabor trip. Les enjoyed passing some “skimpys” girls (very popular in mining pubs), near the Exchange Hotel. We had a look at Mt Charlotte and the Water Reserve built by O’Connor. The Superpit lookout is pretty cool – “it’s a big thing when you look into it”. Bondy must have been pretty smart to get all the claims together to mine the area as one operation. It Reminded Les of the Kevin Bloody Wilson song “Living next door to Alan”.

Daily Stats: Distance: 396km, Duration: 4hrs30min, Weather: Fine, Windy & Warmed Up.

Seafront Caravan Park Esperance

 Norseman

 Dry Lake Bed

 Railway

 View from Mt Charlotte

 Kalgoorlie

 Underground Shaft Vent

 View from Public Lookout of the Superpit

 Still needs refining.

 Trafalgar - preparation for tomorrows blast.

 Long way down