Day 1 – Day 3

Well we are off and running, McDonalds for breakfast and everybody is excited. However 2 and a half hours into the trip we found a car had rolled and people were standing around. Jade got out and helped. A bystander offered to take the injured and concussed driver to hospital and the others who witnessed it to stay and give statements to the police from Kellerberrin who arrived a few minutes later. The young driver told Jade that he was really tired and fell asleep at the wheel at 10am in the morning!

Back on the road, we stopped in Merredin for a stretch and play in the playground and then back in the car to Kalgoorlie, our first night stop over.

We stayed two nights in Kalgoorlie and saw a planned explosion at the bottom of the Super Pit. The Pit is 320m deep, 3.2km long and 1.4km wide and makes the trucks that are as big as houses look like little toy trucks in a sandpit. The blast was quick and sand and rock flew up in the air in big dust clouds then a second later the sound from the blast hit us. It’s impressive to watch and hear. There is a constant sound coming from the pit an orchestra of trucks, heavy machinery and the moaning wind.

 Later we checked out the Kalgoorlie Museum full of artefacts from gold mining, including rescue boards, gas masks and gold nuggets found and Aboriginal tools, including boomerangs and spear throwers, from tribes in the area when Kalgoorlie was discovered by pioneers. There was a miners cottage set up just how it used to be in the 1900’s and also a dentist room.

Stay tuned for the next installment of the Nullabor!