We spent a couple of hours at the Kalgoorlie Museum today, which has a number of impressive historical displays about the hardships of life on the goldfields, including an original miner's cottage, the tiny British Arm's Hotel, entrepreneur Claude de Bernale's opulent offices and boardroom and WA's largest collection of gold nuggets and bars housed underground in the vault. We had a guided tour including up the lift to the top of the Ivanhoe Headframe (originally...

Heading further east today, we stopped in the small town of Coolgardie, once a big gold mining town and the third largest town in WA (after Perth and Fremantle). In its heyday it had a population of over 5,000 people and 700 registered mining companies. Today Coolgardie is mainly a tourist town, with well maintained and beautiful historic buildings a central focus of the town. Next we drove to our destination of Kalgoorlie, where we arrived mid afternoon, first ...