On the last long weekend here, May 30 to June 2, we headed to Kalgoorlie with the Wayne, Suzie, Noah and Elise Fetter. Kalgoorlie is 7 hours east (inland) of Perth and is the home of the Super Pit. The Super Pit is the country's largest open pit mine. It is 3 km long, 1.4 km wide and close to 600 metres deep. In this Pit they mine GOLD - up to 85,000 ounces of gold every year - that is big bucks!!! We camped this weekend and had our first cold spell at night - it was warm during the day but got down to 4 at night - burrrrr!
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| A view from the air of the pit |
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| At the Super Pit |
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| The Pit |
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| Fun with Shadows |
We also went to a Mining Museum to check out some of the equipment that is used in the mining of gold.
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| Loading the kids in the big front loader |
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| A BIG dump truck |
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| Even Sean looks little |
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| That is a big wheel |
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| Visiting an olden day prospector camp It looked like a tough life |
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| Matthew finds gold |
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| Kade panning for gold - he never did find any |
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| The boys using a medal detector to find some treasure |
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| Sean & Wayne taking a tour of a brothel This industry was very big years ago in the gold rush They were just touring and not sampling |
We had the opportunity to visit the Kalgoorlie-Boulder Racing Club and take in some races - we even did some tipping - won a couple and lost a couple.
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| Some kangaroos - love the colours in this picture |
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| In the early 1900's the Australians built a really long fence with the hope of stopping the rabbits from taking over Western Australia. Supposedly a British man had rabbits imported from Britain so that he would have something to hunt. Well we all know that rabbits reproduce quickly and they did and started to eat all of the vegetation in the area. The fence was to stop them from heading further west. |
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| This is a water pipe - it takes water from Perth all the way to Kalgoorlie |
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