Kalgoorlie to Perth

Well what a day we had in Kalgoorlie. After much advice we rang ahead last Tuesday to book our seats (7) on the super pit mine tour. The booking was for Saturday. I was lucky that I had the confirmation email sent to my phone, but I should of read it as the lady that booked us in had actually booked us in for Tuesday, the day I rang :(

This meant that when we arrived keen and early for our tour at 9:15, we found that our names were not on the list. We were not very happy. I should of read the confirmation email. Anyways the lady that served us on the Saturday was very helpful and managed to squeeze five of us onto a special session. It turned out that the Tuesday tour had been cancelled due to bad weather anyways.

This also meant that our day had been turned upside down as the second tour left at 1:30 so we had not quite half a day to waste. We walked the main street for a while before descending on Coles for some supplies for the next few days and then heading back to camp for some lunch.

1:30 found us back down the main street and boarding the tour bus for our tour. The tour was very informative and the guide really knew what was going on. We loved the tour and the inside view it gave us. One funny part was when we came back on to the bus after an outside viewing and the driver, after doing a head count, looked down the bus at Caitlyns seat and asked if anyone was in it. Caitlyn had to stand up to show she was there ;)

After the tour we returned to the camp for a great barbecue dinner before starting our packing for the next days drive. The night also turned out to be very cool and windy.

Sunday found us driving from Kalgoorlie to Perth. Even though this was supposed to be a long days drive it turned out to be quite nice and we pulled into the caravan park at 4:30pm. We stopped for lunch in southern cross and again at Cunderdin where we let the kids out for a play whilst we had a look at a gathering on vintage cars.

The caravan park, Karyinyup waters resort, seems nice enough, but we were a bit disappointed since we booked this place in advance, for two sites, and when we arrived we were told we could have our pick of grass sites down the back, all the slab sites were taken, and we could not be together as where no double sites available.

Tomorrow we are off to the Perth mint and a walk through the CBD.

I am doing many of these short blog posts using bloggsy on Bianca's iPad the software works well but since all the photos are on the laptop it is easier to do the photos with windows live

Fraser Range station to Kalgoorlie

Today's trip was a short one of only around 3hrs to we took our time.

We first rose early in the morning, Dad and I at least, for a coffee and a walk around the station. Then, once everyone else was awake we cooked up bacon, sausages and eggs in the camp kitchen. This was nice.

After breakfast we started to break camp and got both vans to the point that we could drive off. We then went for a group walk to the top of a nearby hill. This gave us a great view out over the station. We could see the caravan park and many small cairns that people had made. We also found a group of rock wallabies on the far side of the hill and spotted a group of kangaroos in a distant field. This made the kids morning.

When we returned to the vans we stopped for a few more photos, one of some bush humour, before heading off for Norseman.

We need to stop here to inquire about a fossicking location we could find agate at. Unfortunately we could only access the free site with the van so it was here we headed, down a long and winding dirt track. It ended up being a nice spot with a fireplace so we got that going for our coffee and tea and had lunch before specking around for agate pieces. We found a few and it will be interesting to get home and cut them up to see how they really look.

 

We left Norseman after this to head to Kalgoorlie where we have booked into the Discovery holiday park. We have a great sized site and plan on being here 2 days as we have booked a super pit mine tour for tomorrow.