Saturday 20 June 2009

Norseman to Kalgoorlie – 187km

We made yet another early start (not by choice though). Norseman is full of people who have to get up / leave for work at 5am, and they don’t exactly make any attempt to keep the noise down. No thought that other people might want to sleep!! Norseman now marked DO NOT RETURN.
We left at 5:45am and had breakfast 60km down the road in Widgiemooltha - a funny, ex-gold mining town. The Roadhouse is the just about the only place there now and is a very clean, tidy little place. The breakfast of Bacon & Eggs with Toast was just lovely, and the cook / server guy was very interesting to talk to.
After setting up in Kalgoorlie, we went and did the stock-up shopping. The total price was very un-pretty - but unfortunately necessary. All fruit & veg had to be either eaten or cooked before reaching the WA border, and I had deliberately allowed the meat and dry-goods stocks to run down as we crossed the Nullarbor. We ate a few rather creative fridge and pantry cleanout meals during the trip, but are now back to full stocks.
We are booked in here for 3 days, and will pick up the mail on Monday. We also want to go and look at the ‘SuperPit’. It appears to be the big attraction here in Kalgoorlie.

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