Day: 20 March 2011

  • Day 16 – a lazy Kalgoorlie Sunday

    View Larger Map Today really was a lazy day. We left the motel around midday and went down to Boulder to look at the monthly market day. Doing some research last night, we found out that many of the museums in Boulder are currently closed due to earthquake damage. Evidently there was an earthquake on…

  • Day 15 – Gold country

    View Larger Map Today’s journey was a relatively short trip to Kalgoorlie, however in our usual style, we found plenty of detours to make the journey take a little longer. We headed via another huge rock formation called The Humps and up the 170km road to Marvel Loch. This is basically a small mining town…

  • Day 14 – out to the wave

    View Larger Map Day 14 took us down to the Perth coast. There was a sculpture thing on at Cottesloe beach all of March but we didn’t see more than what on the foreshore. The coffee in Cottesloe was horrible, as expected, and I’m now convinced the best coffee in Australian is in Melbourne (and…