Kalgoorlie-Boulder

It's funny how things tend to work themselves out. Earlier in our trip we had decided to skip a trip to Kalgoorlie-Boulder due to lack of time. It turned out that on the train to Adelaide we got to stop there for a few hours and get a quick bus tour around there. The star attraction is the "Superpit" - the largest opencut gold mine in the world. The pictures I got were at night, so they didn't come out that well, but even from looking at it, it's difficult to appreciate the size of the thing. The trucks used in the pit are the size of a 4 storey building so looking at it from a distance your entire sense of scale messed up. The pit was 4X1.5ish kms and half a km deep and is set to double in size before 2017 when its life comes to an end. Wow!