Early rise at 3am to be on the bus by 4am! First Stop Kondinin Made it to Merredin and onto the train. Now we're in Kalgoorlie at the...

On the bus in Merredin at about 11am...

Waking up, packing, cleaning, embarking.

Time for a cooling swim, and a few goes on the indoor water slide at the Kalgoorlie Oasis. Miss Letter and Miss McGuire splashed along...

To add a little to the other geological knowledge we’ve picked up this week, we stopped by the WA School of Mines mineral collection....

Sadly, the Royal Flying Doctor Service plane was called out for a retrieval from Esperance about ten minutes before our visit, so our...

Most of the students lost their wages - hard earned in the mine - at the Kalgoorlie Two up school. Lady Luck smiled on Miss McGuire and...

Boys: After line dancing we had showers. Then we went to bed and Mr Bailey told some stories. The stories were interesting, I kind of...

The discovery of gold at Coolgardie swelled the colony’s population from forty thousand to eight hundred thousand and attracted a lot of...

Chance to sit down after the hard work of crushing rocks for gold. Quick lunch and a kick of the footy.

It looks new - clean and shiny metal. You open the door by pressing a button, when you go inside it looks like the future. When the door...

Well, it took a while for me to find some. I got a little sad because I thought I was going to be the only one not to find gold. Then...

Finding quartz - a 2 coloured rock Maddie and Charlie were the first to strike gold!!!! Cliffton showing his miner's permit