LAKE BALLARD TO KALGOOLIE AND THE NULLABOR

We left Lake Ballard and Menzies and headed for Kalgoolie. As we had been there on our last trip we didn't need to visit the same areas of town again. We did go to the Super Pit to see how deep it was since our last visit. They just keep blasting away and loading the rubble (with gold in it of course) onto trucks. The windy road inside the pit is like a busy highway with huge trucks going both ways. We just stood in awe at the HUGE hole in the ground which just keeps getting bigger and deeper.

There was this huge bucket which has been put to one side of the carpark so we took a photo of each other standing in it.

The Super Pit is actually in Boulder so we took a walk down the main street. As you can see there's not much action.

We then drove down the main street of Kalgoolie - I took a photo of the oldest pub which sits on a corner. It is quite magnificent.

We left Kalgoolie and stopped in Norseman to post some cards. The centre of the roundabout has been dedicated to the camel without which the interior of Oz could not have been serviced.

After leaving Norseman we started across the bottom of Australia. We had heard on the radio about a semi tipping over along this stretch of road. It wasn't long before we came across it. The driver was airlifted to hospital in Perth although his injuries weren't life threatening.

And so the long trek across the Nullabor begins.

We saw whales and heard, very loudly, the noise as they exhale!!

Stopped at freecamps.

And in the morning found the most special sight of a cobweb covered in droplets of dew.

Then it was on the road again and getting closer to home.

So until next time, adios amigos!!