{"id":243,"date":"2026-05-26T13:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T13:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/detak.com.au\/wp\/?p=243"},"modified":"2026-05-26T13:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T13:16:15","slug":"day-8-kalgoorlie-boulder-niagara-dam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/detak.com.au\/wp\/?p=243","title":{"rendered":"Day 8 Kalgoorlie-Boulder – Niagara Dam"},"content":{"rendered":"

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…<\/p>\n

We decided to head out to our planned destination , Niagara Dam.<\/p>\n

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..<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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.\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Continue reading Day 8 Kalgoorlie-Boulder – Niagara Dam<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4wd","category-camping","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/detak.com.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/detak.com.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/detak.com.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/detak.com.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/detak.com.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/detak.com.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254,"href":"https:\/\/detak.com.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/detak.com.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/detak.com.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/detak.com.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}