First night ever in Kalgoorlie.

Breakfast, cereal, toast and coffee/ tea at the Air B & B

PTA is done successfully for my new target pistol

Golf, we’re booked in at 11am. Pretty casual approach by the club pro in the pro shop. This course was where last years WA PGA championship was played, no bull, its a beautiful golf course, couch fairways, clean constant pace greens with lots of variety in slope. But, to poor golfers its irrelevant. The better the course, the more we hack ( read that as suck). Harve carries the bag and dispenses sage advice, which doesn’t find the right spot in our brains. Never the less we finish the two holes and retire to the 19th to pick our wounded pride.

A few drinks in the shade out front of the club hydrates and assists recovery.

Lunch at Dome, then we head to the Kalgoorlie Visitors Centre for our certificate, we feel special. But we’re not, we are just bad golfers on good course today, and some scrappy holes previously. We have played, not conquered the longest 18 hole golf course in the world.

Our golf certificates are presented at Kalgoorlie Visitors Centre, we receive our complimentary polo shirts after handing over $37. We are waiting our invitation back to play on the Kalgoorlie Pro Am, but not holding our breath on this one.

Some shopping is done, scarves, souvenirs, shirts etc.

The big long awaited event, a super pit blasting at 5.15pm fails to take place. After a long freezing wait in the Super Pit dust, sun setting in the wrst, Captain Kirk calls it quits and we head to the York Hotel for warmth and food. The York Hotel is a strange piece of architecture in a dusty dry Western Australian gold town. Sort of Victorian, Indian British Raj architecture with little turrets, upstairs verandahs and internally its like it sort of would have been 100 years ago. It was built in 1901 so it’s possible.

Some Kalgoorlie news;

The annual Diggers and Dealers forum is finishing up – returning home with their mistresses in their private jets.

Quote “A man exposed himself to some children at a bus stop and enquiry into land and development planning”.      Now, I can understand him exposing himself to children ( i can’t actually !) ( shocking as it is) but why expose yourself to a mob of old foggies discussing zoning and subdivisions!!!

A 63 year old Perth bloke was sacked for referring to a fellow as “he” rather than “they” after the aggrieved person advised they we non- binary. WTF!!!!!!

Perth Neo Nazis were probed over the Kwinana freeway. Being probed over a freeway could be painful, but I say probe the neo Nazis with cattle prodders, hot irons etc, anywhere, not just over the railing of a freeway.

Tomorrow is the big drive to Perth, 6 + hours.

Cheers from Kalgoorlie

Pauolo