Up at first light to get to our tour pickup location for the Super Pit. Looks like everyone around us is going too….just as we were leaving at 0800, I received a text message advising the tour is off due to absence of a bus driver….not happy but what can we do……found a coffee shop and sat down for a soothing refreshment….to ponder and stew over the cancellation..we stayed and extra night to catch this tour but we were sh#t out of luck…. Swan luck…whilst sipping on our coffee/tea, the other campers that were packing up also come in….they also we gazumped…
We decided to head out to our planned destination , Niagara Dam.
Another failed construction of a dam that was never used, the sheer amount of manpower and resources to build a dam out here was astonishing….walked around and explored the area, joined by 1000000 flies..
Back in the car for the short drive to Kookynie, a ghost town from the gold rush days, the Grand Hotel was the last one standing out of five others, so we went in and had a drink….a very old lady was serving and she was witty and very sharp… originally from Victoria. Had a look around of what was left of the town and decided to head to Gwalia (Leonora) to camp.
Free camp right next to the gold mine…huge hole in the ground and right on the doorstep of the museum….had a quick look around the museum and decided to come back in the morning to revisit.
