Day 17 & 18: Yesterday we left Sandstone and just drove and drove thru rather boring flat landscape. Scaggly bushes occasionally and not much else. The land has a brownish ore type colour about it and is very inhospitable to plants or animals I would say. In 360kms we probably only saw 3 carcasses on the road which means the animals are not even coming to the grasses that dot the roadsides normally. We stopped at Mt Magnet for a morning cuppa before turn...

Day 16: Rained and rained all night long and we did the 'put down the awning at 3 am trick'. It was flapping and making noises and just so annoying and you cannot do that job quietly. Never know whether to do it really fast and get the noise over with or slowly and a pretend its not really you waking everyone up. Morning dawned with blue sky, yayyyy. Well it didn't stay like that but today has been the first day in a t-shirt for the entire day and is now qui...

Day 15: Leaving Kalgoorlie day and only 126 kms to Menzies our next stop. We were here 7 years ago and it was where the decision was made for me to fly home to be with the family as my dad was in a coma so not too happy memory of this place. Although the caravan park is in a different spot and now clean, modern facilities as much as one can do in the outback anyway. Arrived about 12, and after lunch headed out to Lake Ballard. The one place I really, really ...

Day 14: An early morning start for us having to be down in the main street of Kalgoorlie by 8:45. No long lingering cups of tea to start the day with as we were on a 2.5 hour tour with no toilet facilities so no chances taken. The SuperPit is just that, humungous, it produces 750,000 ore tonnes per year yielding 56,000 ounces of gold, nearly 5 kilos a day. When finally closed down in 2029 they estimate the Pit will be 3.9 kilometres long, 1.6 wide and 700 dee...

Day 13: The big bang happened and like any fireworks we all went yayyyyyy. After a leisurely morning…well we couldn't get near a washing machine for love nor money, everyone obviously had the same idea. So, we went to explore Boulder, much nicer I thought to Kalgoorlie itself. Buildings lovely and just a nicer feel about it I thought. After a coffee we went on a search for my timber place….hmmmm in the back blocks and chain wire and barbed wire and mess ...