Random thoughts and observations
Western Australia has a hoon problem. It exists everywhere to some extent, I suppose, but I never encountered it in the parts of Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia I lived in previously. Hoon activity can be doing a burnout; dangerous or reckless driving; racing another vehicle, speeding, and accelerating or braking and skidding [...]
The CIA and ASIO must think Osama bin Laden is hiding in Western Australia. That might explain why airport security at Kalgoorlie is so stringent. With so many miners wearing steel-capped boots, it’s inevitable that every second person who passes through the magic arch (the one that beeps) warrants further scrutiny from the people with [...]
Australia’s biggest gold mine, the Super Pit, made front page news in The Australian today. This follows a report in the Kalgoorlie Miner earlier this week that the south-western wall collapsed. The operator, Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines, is a joint venture between North American giants Newmont (USA) and Barrick (Canada). Here is Kalgoorlie we hope [...]
We left Falcon at 9am and arrived home in Kalgoorlie at 6pm. The nine-hour journey was much better than the 13-hour detour we had to endure on the way out because of the highway closure. I took some back roads this morning via Boddington, Pingelly, Brookton, Corrigin and Narembeen to Merredin. It might have been [...]
When you haven’t seen someone or something for a year or so your sense of observation is more acute. It’s harder to notice gradual change if you see something every day. But if you haven’t seen someone for a year it’s easier to tell if they have put on weight or turned grey. It’s the [...]
