Kalgoorlie really is a place that never changes, it looks exactly the same as it did the last time we came up and that was 3 years ago for Easter {my sister & her girls came too}.
Before we left Albany {and I still had reception} I emailed a few of the caravan parks to see which would be cheaper and the one that was the cheapest {Discovery Park South Kalgoorlie} turns out also wanted to talk to Justin about some work, so that is the one that we went with.
When we arrived we decided to give it a week and see what happened with work for J. Well he did a two private jobs and we managed to negotiate the caravan park job so looks like we will be staying put until mid April. So we are almost two weeks into our stay and I have seen more of the area than I have in any other past visit, kind of scary when you think about it!
As always no trip to Kalgoorlie is right without a trip to a Hammond Park and b The Super Pit, both of which we managed to do on the first day and J has been back to the super pit a few times since.
With some time up our sleeve on Friday we decided to pack a lunch and head out to do part of the Golden Quest Discovery Trail and I am so glad that we did. It has so much history and it is so hard to believe that people lived in the middle of no where, literally nowhere in the late 1800's/early 1900's. Now in most cases there is nothing left but may-be so rubble or grave sites but they have marked the locations with signs to show where the gazetted town sites used to be. There are hundreds of all exploration shafts, probably the same in number of old mine sites and it is all in the middle of this isolated outback. In some ways I can just picture what it looked like, in others it is really hard to believe that up to {and sometimes more} than 500 people lived in these locations. These days they struggle to get people to live in Kalgoorlie, everything is no FIFO much to the detriment of not only these country towns but also to the families that these workers belong to. IMO anyways.
Kalgoorlie is also nothing if good at keeps you on your towns when it comes to weather. We have had several thunder storms since we arrived, lightening, heat, cold, rain and even a magnificent supercell {if only I hadn't been so slack and had reached for my DLSR and not just used my iPhone}
Now that we are done part of it I am hoping that when J had a break over Easter we can go and do another portion, it would be great to see some of the other places that my Mum and her family used to live. Menzies is really no more than a caravan park now, even the petrol station is no longer manned {promise pictures next time of Menzies}.
Next update will be for a certain little girls birthday!
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