Kalgoorlie.

 Tuesday  22/4/25.

This morning we packed up and went into town to go to the PO to see if Bob’s parcel of supplements and finally caught up with him.

Guess what ?   

It did!!! Yay!!!   6 days for Express Post from Adelaide. Well Easter did make it longer.









After a nice coffee we went on a bus tour of the Super Pit Mine. This is the largest and deepest mine in the area. Here, everything is BIG! Big tonka trucks, big front end loaders and other machinery, big amounts of money and fuel, big truck and grader tyres weighing 4 ton each. Each Tonka truck has 8 wheels.

The guide explained the workings of the mine very well so if you want to earn big money, this is the place to be.

First stop on the tour was the Super Pit Lookout.


View from the lookout.







Then we were taken down towards the bottom.

The truck on the road going down gives you an idea of the depth.
We had to take pictures from the bus so they are a bit far away. These were used tyres.
The conveyor taking the rock away to the crushing plant.








After the tour we had lunch and I bought a new hat.



Barb with Paddy Hannan who was first to discover gold in the area.








After buying some food at Woollies we went to BCF,  Bunnings and Supercheap for a few things and then put the truck through the car wash to get some of the mud off it from driving down to the Eyre Bird Observatory.

Wednesday 23/4/25.

We were up bright and early to have the truck in at Pedders to have the shock absorbers adjusted. They couldn’t work on them because they were not Pedders Shock Absorbers but did say they seemed to be working ok.

We decided to go to the Gold Mining Museum. We arrived in time to take a short tour which gave us lots of information.

First stop was the memorial wall to honour the 1600 miners who have died from mining accidents, 2 in 2024.

Then we took the lift to the observation platform on the mine head.

This Mine Head was moved to the museum site from a nearby mine, not an easy job.
Views over Kalgoorlie .

Looking towards the mines on the edge of town.








Inside the museum were lots of items to show what life on the goldfields was like in the early days.

Coolgardie safe.
Gas mask and recovery stretcher.
Wooden pushbike.
Wooden wheel barrow. Many miners walked to the goldfields from Perth pushing these with all their possessions loaded, 600 klms!!

A water pipe made from wood.







Lastly we went into the gold vault where various types of gold was on display.






By this time it was lunch time so we treated ourselves to a pub lunch. Then it was off to Hannah’s Tourist Mine where we really found out how big the trucks and machinery are.

A big Tonka truck 
With big wheels.

Bucket on a front end loader.







This is what happens to an ordinary truck if it gets run over by one of those huge trucks. It used to be kept in the Super Pit to remind the workers that the drivers of the big trucks cannot see them and to keep well clear.


Bob panned for gold and he GOT some!







By the way, a group of crows is called a Murder of crows and that is exactly what needs to happen to them. They are everywhere over here and they never shut up!!



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