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2024 Day 1
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...
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Ian
- Sep 6, 2018
- 1 min
Dip & Slide
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...
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Ian
- Sep 6, 2018
- 1 min
School of Mines Mineral Museum
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....
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Ian
- Sep 6, 2018
- 1 min
Flying Doctor Base
Sadly, the Royal Flying Doctor Service plane was called out for a retrieval from Esperance about ten minutes before our visit, so our...
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Ian
- Sep 6, 2018
- 1 min
Two up School
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...
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Jack & Gabby
- Sep 5, 2018
- 1 min
Sleeps
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...
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Ian
- Sep 5, 2018
- 1 min
Coolgardie History Trip
The discovery of gold at Coolgardie swelled the colony’s population from forty thousand to eight hundred thousand and attracted a lot of...
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Ian
- Sep 5, 2018
- 1 min
Chillin’ at the Park
Chance to sit down after the hard work of crushing rocks for gold. Quick lunch and a kick of the footy.
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Shamus
- Sep 5, 2018
- 1 min
Coolgardie Park Toilet
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...
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Eliza
- Sep 5, 2018
- 1 min
Striking Gold
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...
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Ms Nic
- Sep 5, 2018
- 1 min
First Stop - Prospecting
Finding quartz - a 2 coloured rock Maddie and Charlie were the first to strike gold!!!! Cliffton showing his miner's permit
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