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 deep. It is so massive, impossible to describe and the size of the trucks mind blowing. We took a few photos with a normal car in the shot as well to show the size difference. Each month they use approx. 5 - 6 million litres of diesel. Whoa I thought we were going thru a lot. We were taken into the milling area of the site and tour guide explained the process to get the gold out of the rock, no wonder it is a precious ore. We arrived back in town in time for lunch and enjoyed a Thai meal at Yada Thai, if in Kal definitely go there. Gorgeous young Asian lady and her partner from Newtown (ran a restaurant there) who followed the money to Kal to mine gold but got sick of it after a year and went back to cooking, and much more useful commodity. A bit of shopping and back to the van prior to our next adventure.

Hmmm a tour of a working brothel. Well, not much really to do in Kalgoorlie. The 'Madam' was a bossy snobby very well-spoken woman who had owned the place for 25 years. Waffled on a lot but there was some interesting history interspersed with her waffle. Took us into the Domination room first with all on display, instruments I mean. Nobody was game to ask questions…yewww creepy. Madam does the tours to keep money coming in - 20 people @ $25 a head twice a day. Booked out most days, tourists are so nosy. Oh well, ticked off our list of things to do.

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