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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 the gold mine. Each huge truck is worth $4.4m and it takes the ore processed from seven trucks to produce one golf ball size lump of gold! We drove onto nearby Kalgoorlie town centre to enjoy the colourful heritage buildings including the Palace, Exchange and York Hotels, Town Hall, Post Office and numerous others. Down Hay Street we found the old Questa Casa Brothel still operating out of what looked like an old painted tin shed! Refuelled and drove back to Boulder for another look at the old streets and colourful Town Hall. Dinner tonight home cooked prawn curry and ice cream. Cool 17 degrees, sunny periods and fine. Tomorrow we head to Norseman and then turn east towards the Nullarbor Plain, getting closer to home at last.
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