How The Other Half Live.
Well in Kalgoorlie anyway..
During the three hour whistle stop in Kalgoorlie, Chris, Jim, Gail & I went on the City Highlights coach tour. The city's historic buildings have been magnificently restored and under the night lights looked fantastic. Our coach driver was a local lady who had been previosly been a full time driver driving the massive dump trucks in the Superpit, an open cut gold and nickel mine in adjoining Boulder. This open cut mine is the largest in the world,
measuring approx. 2-1/2 km long by 1km wide and currently 300 metres deep with plans to increase this to 600 metres by the year 2017. We stopped at a vantage point on the edge and were able to see the giant dump trucks slowly grinding their way up the zig zag road to the top. Each of the 60 dump trucks have a payload of 250 tonne, with each of the eight tyres costing $30,000 and a maximum life of six months. It was hard to imagine how this Superpit would look when it reaches the max. planned depth as the huge diggers and trucks already look like tiny matchbox toys from our vantage point.
Our final point of interest on the tour was the infamous Hay Street.
Our coach driver seemed to have an intimate knowledge of several of the better class brothels and in fact came to a complete stop outside the most elaborate establishment where we were joined by the "madam" who gave us a very detailed and open run-down on her high class business - a most entertaining 15 or so minutes. We were even "flashed" on two seperate occasions, once by a well endowed barmaid outside the Main Reef Hotel and later by one of the "girls" outside Club 183 in Hay St. who gave us a quick glimpse of her scantily clad rear end.
After this very informative hour or so we re-boarded the train and departed Kalgoorlie about 11pm. We are due to arrive in Perth at about 9am tomorrow morning.
Kevin & Gail.
www.indianpacific.blogspot.com
During the three hour whistle stop in Kalgoorlie, Chris, Jim, Gail & I went on the City Highlights coach tour. The city's historic buildings have been magnificently restored and under the night lights looked fantastic. Our coach driver was a local lady who had been previosly been a full time driver driving the massive dump trucks in the Superpit, an open cut gold and nickel mine in adjoining Boulder. This open cut mine is the largest in the world,
measuring approx. 2-1/2 km long by 1km wide and currently 300 metres deep with plans to increase this to 600 metres by the year 2017. We stopped at a vantage point on the edge and were able to see the giant dump trucks slowly grinding their way up the zig zag road to the top. Each of the 60 dump trucks have a payload of 250 tonne, with each of the eight tyres costing $30,000 and a maximum life of six months. It was hard to imagine how this Superpit would look when it reaches the max. planned depth as the huge diggers and trucks already look like tiny matchbox toys from our vantage point.
Our final point of interest on the tour was the infamous Hay Street.
Our coach driver seemed to have an intimate knowledge of several of the better class brothels and in fact came to a complete stop outside the most elaborate establishment where we were joined by the "madam" who gave us a very detailed and open run-down on her high class business - a most entertaining 15 or so minutes. We were even "flashed" on two seperate occasions, once by a well endowed barmaid outside the Main Reef Hotel and later by one of the "girls" outside Club 183 in Hay St. who gave us a quick glimpse of her scantily clad rear end.
After this very informative hour or so we re-boarded the train and departed Kalgoorlie about 11pm. We are due to arrive in Perth at about 9am tomorrow morning.
Kevin & Gail.
www.indianpacific.blogspot.com
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