Today the sun was shinning and the temp was expected to reach 22deg. So we headed off to town to Coles so we could restock our supplies before we headed down to Norseman and then start our drive across the Nullarbor Plain. We replaced our LPG gas and will fill our water tanks so we can be independent and stop off at the overnight rest stops on our way across.
Had my hair cut and then we had another look around the town before going back for our lunch.
It was then off to tour the historic Questa Casa,Australia’s oldest working bordello.Over 100 years old.it is the last of the original tin bordellos.We were advised that the tour would surprise the 11 of us who lined up outside to do the 2pm tour. It was interesting and gave us all an insight into the part the bordello plays in this mining town. Read http://www.listener.co.nz/issue/3597/columnists/13158/in_the_pinkmadam.html for a good story about the place, though we didn’t meet Carmel as her daughter was looking after the place whilst she was away on stress leave! Her daughter emphasised that it was a business for her and her mother and that neither of them were working girls and never had been or intended to be.
Buildings in Boulder and Kalgoorlie
Kalgoorlie and Boulders are almost unchanged from the turn of the 1900’s. They say that the streets of Kalgoorlie are paved with gold which is not too far from the truth as the used all the tailings from the gold fields which at that time, they were unable to extract. Now days that problems doesn't exist and all the gold possible is extracted . We visited the super pit www.superpit.com.au which has a viewing platform overlooking this famous landmark which will eventually stretch 3.2 km long,1.4km wide and go down to a depth of more than 600m which has incorporated all the gold mines that were once in the so called golden mile and are now all in the Super Pit which is run by KCGM.
Another fascinating fact about this area is that all its fresh water is pumped by a water pipe-line from Mundaring Weir in Perth which is 563 km away that was built in 1903 by the genius foresight of the States Engineer C.Y.O’Connor. Its obvious that water here is a very valuable commodity and very expensive.
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