Well, the washing got dry on the line by the time we left to go to Kambalda and on to Kalgoorlie for 3 more Nullabor Link holes. One hole at Kambalda (Hole 16 - Silver Lake).
Silver Lake or Lake Lefroy is approximately 510 sq km in area and nestled on the edge of Kambalda and Widgiemooltha and is widely used for land sailing. It is considered by many all over the world to be one of the best places to sail a land yacht due to its size and the texture of its surface. The lake and has also been used in the past for Australian land speed record attempts and also hosted the 2007 Pacrim Land Sailing Event in which competitors from all over the world descended on its flat smooth surface.
From Kambalda we drove on to Boulder where there was an arts festival happening. Lots of stalls outside many of the shops and in a nearby Park. We heard the junior and senior choir the Kalgoorlie Public School sing. Jill bought a wooden top for her spinning top collection.
Next stop Kalgoorlie - some lovely old buildings. Had lunch at a cafe which Google rated highly as "best lunch in Kalgoorlie". We think it might have changed hands lately as it was nothing to rave about. Fortunately, our lunch spot was next to the Information Centre and we had had a quick look in there just as it was about to close. We discovered that it was at the Information Centre that you received your certificate for completing the Course and the kind lady let us have our certificates even before playing the last two holes.
We had a drive around Kalgoorlie looking for the lookout we had heard about even though we had also heard that the two lookouts were closed. Anyway, we did drive up to a lookout at Charlottes Reservoir. It was not closed and we had a good view over Kalgoorlie and the tailings mountains.
Then it was on to the golf course where we played the last two holes of the Nullarbor links course. (Hole 17 - Golden Mile and Hole 18 - CY O'Connor. Hole 17 recognising the discovery of gold by Paddy Hannan in 1893 which led to one of Australia's great gold rushes. Hole 18, The Pipeline CY O'Connor built, tells the story of the Mundaring to Kalgoorlie pipeline designed by Engineer-in-Chief CY O'Connor. The pipeline carries fresh water from the hills on the outskirts of Perth to the eastern goldfields of Western Australia, across a distance of 560 kilometres. It took five years to build and was completed in 1903. It is still in use today and supplies water through 8000 kilometres of pipe to almost 100,000 people and 6 million sheep throughout the goldfields and surrounding agricultural areas. Our lookout reservoir was part of this scheme.
The Kalgoorlie Golf Course has had a recent makeover to the tune of 4 million dollars. Quite fancy green greens and even green teas.
Back to camp at Norseman via Coolgardie. By the time we got back, it was dark so we were lucky that there were no kangaroos out and about. A long day.
