holiday valley: Wave Rock to Kalgoorlie

Unfortunately the sun did not shine on us at Wave Rock so we had a quick walk in the wind and light rain around Hyden rocks which includes Wave Rock, actually really impressive. Hyden rocks itself was really nice, a big granite formation, we went over to another even bigger granite formation called the Humps, would have been great to have a big walk around there but the weather was not looking good and we wanted to make it to Kalgoorlie.

Kalgoorlie was great, the sun finally came out and it was a bit of a trip down memory lane for me as my family lived there for about 7 years when I was young. We went and checked out the HUGE!! Superpit, and watched the tonka trucks in action, boys all loved it. We went to the superpit shop and museum, we got to climb up on one of the huge dump trucks, pan for gold (even found a couple of specks – turns out they put a few in there for the tourists), checked out the gold nuggets in the vault of the local WA museum, looked at all the rocks in the School of mines museum as well as having a bit of a drive around to look at some of the old places I remember. Kalgoorlie has lots of beautiful old buildings as well as some great history but the boys really liked the historical old lolly shop the best.

We have left quite a lot to do here for the next trip