Kalgoorlie

After recovering from our mammoth drive on Sunday, we woke up on Monday morning almost refreshed, grabbed some coffee and went to the West Australian Museum. They have a huge headframe as you go into the museum that they moved from the Golden Mile when the Super Pit swallowed up the old mine. There's an observation deck at the top where you can see all of Kalgoorlie and the underground workings at Mount Charlotte (and some MASSIVE spoil piles)

Exchange Hotel on Hannan Street. Kalgoorlie's main street has like 10 pubs on it.

Ivanhoe Headframe at WA Museum

View towards Mt Charlotte Mine and Super Pit from headframe at WA Museum

After the museum we had lunch at the Palace Hotel, where Hoover's Mirror is. Herbert Hoover was a mine manger at Gwalia outside of Leonora in the Goldfields. He went on to become the 31st President of the United States. After lunch we climbed Mt Charlotte (more like a molehill than a mountain!) to the reservoir and lookout. In the late 1800s, the WA Engineer in Chief, CY O'Connor, masterminded a pipeline from the Mundaring Weir, some 530km away and the reservoir is the final destination of the pipeline. If the same pipeline were built today, it would cost $1 billion.

We finished the afternoon with a tour of one of the brothels on Hay St, Questa Casa. All the brothels in Kalgoorlie used to be located on Hay St only, with the girls not allowed to leave the house or be part of the town. Some of the stories told were "interesting" to say the least.

Lawrie outside the brothel.

Our final day in Kalgoorlie was spent at the miners hall of fame, where we saw some more mining history and saw a gold pour. We then headed to the Super Pit and the old school lolly store, loaded up and headed out to Hyden.

Gold Pour

Still hot!

Super Pit, massive!