Kalgoorlie Part I {Caravan Park - Working}

Two weeks today we have been at the caravan park, time really is flying.

We have seen out the last week of school holidays, J has started work, we have visited the Superpit a few times, the lookout over the town, driven around and checkout some of the amazing buildings but by far the most exciting is deciding to start the smalls in school!

 

 

 

 

 

 

OH, I almost forgot we also had a trip to the cinema's on the last day of the school holidays.  The smalls & I watched Turbo and they enjoyed every minute of it.  Who would have thought a movie about a snail could be so good.

I have again fallen in love with some buildings, with the history and more importantly my favourite building in Boulder is still for sale & almost $100k cheaper!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I really could spend every spare minute that I have taking pictures of these beautiful buildings. {Even more enthusiasm to do so with my new camera}

The boys were very happy that the afternoon we decided to go to the Superpit to see a blast, it was a very big one and looked true amazing {even to me, an anti-hole-in-the-ground person}.

 

 

 

 

Given that we are in town for six weeks more, with J working we decided to put the smalls into school for this time to give us all a break.  They are LOVING every minute of it after a week, which is great for all of us!

We topped off this last week with a wonderfully interesting night with our new neighbours {well over the road ones anyways} and a quiet night last night with delivered pizza.  Perfect end given the terrible change in the weather.

Can't wait to see what the next few weeks will bring us.

Kalgoorlie {Visiting}

Arriving in town during the school holidays and earlier than planned {for work} we crashed with my cousin and her family for a few days. Going right to Raelene's house also meant that I got all of the parcels that I had sent to her, the most exciting was my NEW camera!

We had a wonderful time, ate too much and drank too much but relaxed some which was nice.

 

 

Sunday saw us taking a drive out to a dam {& old townsite}.  A BBQ lunch, playing children and catching yabbies was a great way to spend the day.

A pack down and short drive to our next stop, all of 10 minutes away {if that}!

Historial Gwalia Townsite {Day Visit}

So much history, so many stories and so well maintained.

The old pub, the first government owned in Western Australia is a grand old building.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The townsite of Gwalia is all but abandoned these days and has been since the early 1900's has so much of a story to tell.  The buildings are so old and the museum which is now on the site of a very large mining whole has some grand old buildings.  One of which was Herbert Hoovers house, which is now part of the museum and used as B & B.

 We had a great look around the museum, including coffee & scones on the verandah of Hoover House.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We saw the old Mine Managers house, the Mine Managers office and all of the old things that they had inside them.

 

 

 

 

I have HEAPS of pictures of all of the old stuff inside the museum buildings {so am going to limit to only a couple here}.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next was a spot of lunch down in the old townsite before walking around to have a look at the old buildings, homes of families & workers. It is wonderful to see that the people of Leonora are using their own time to maintain these buildings, to keep the history of the area.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next stop Kalgoorlie.....