Day 91. Lazy start to Sunday with poached eggs and toast for breakfast. Then we drove through the nearby Boulder town centre with its beautifully maintained heritage buildings to the lookout at the Super Pit of the Golden Mile, the richest gold mine in the world. The scene before us was truly amazing - a gigantic hole in the ground - an open cut gold mine with more than 20 fully loaded ore trucks which looked like ants crawling up the steep winding road out of t...

Day 90. We left Esperance at 7.30am for our long haul up to Kalgoorlie driving through some scenic salmon gum (Eucalyptus salmonophloia) woodlands and rising to over 300m elevation with a strong crosswind. Through old gold town of Norseman and stopped at old Coolgardie for lunch in the van by the park, some lovely old heritage buildings and a very wide main street. In the 1890's Coolgardie was once the richest goldfield in Australia but is now largely a ghost tow...