Sunday, January 07, 2007

My new travel mate Stewart and our visit of the big mining city Kalgoorlie


For the travel from Perth to Melbourne I searched for another travel mate to share the long drive, fun and petrol expenses. There were some people replying to my lift offer and finally a Scottish guy named Stewart and me decided to travel together.
Our first big stop was the mining city Kalgoorlie where heaps of people fly in and out for work. It is in the middle of nowhere but the miners get really good wages there. So most of them fly there, work for two weeks and leave for the next week, then come back and so on. There are some bars where the waitresses serve in their underwear or even topless when they get enough tips. We visited the Hall of Fame - mining museum, the Superpit - a big working mine and the end of the Golden Pipeline Trail (650 km) which is running from Mundaring (near Perth) to Kalgoorlie. We were driving the whole way beside the pipeline.
In the Hall of Fame I was searching for gold and found a tiny bit that they probably put in there for satisfying the tourists ;-)

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