Wednesday, 29 September 2021

Kalgoorlie

 


Coming into Kalgoorlie from the Trans access road, you have in front of you, at the edge of town, the site of the super pit, the main open cut gold mine of Kalgoorlie. With towering walls of overburden, looking more like a mountain range.



Skirting around the site we came to the outskirts of Boulder, once a separate small town but now more of a suburb of Kal. First stop, a servo to refuel and hopefully shower, unfortunately, the showers and toilets were out of action, as was the tyre air pump, so the tyres had to remain at low pressure till we found a working servo. I didn’t feel like getting my compressor out and doing it that way.

We found a better servo and all was good. Then back to the outskirts and found a secluded camp spot. Next day, it was into town to stock up again. Fresh veges and salad were high on our wish list. It had been three and a half weeks since our last shop, though we still had a good amount of supplies left, it was good to get some little luxuries again.

Caught up with some old friends who had moved here a couple of years ago, it was good to catch up. Then, with all we needed on board, we headed out of town to Rowles Lagoon, a body of water we had visited way back with the kids. It is about 90k out of Kal, turning off at Broad Arrow, then at Ora Banda a bit further on.




The Lagoon is fresh water, and as we do when we come to such a place, we camped up for a while and took advantage of the luxury of abundant water. First was washing cloths then set up the shower and spoiled ourselves.

While there, a crew was working around the lagoon mustering and catching wild cattle, which had escaped capture for some time previously. They were using helicopters and bull catcher 4x4s. They worked for three days while we were there and took out two semi truck loads of cattle.







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