Easter Sunday 8^th April, 2012

In the morning Domink allowed me 30 minutes for sightseeing in Kalgoorlie. This was enough as all shops were closed due to Easter Sunday. Back in the camper I got migraine. Good luck I had the headache soon under control. First we wanted to do a bit sightseeing in Coolgardie, but because of my headache we let it be. We made a short toilet stop and saw how children were searching Easter bunnies in the park. We continued and drove until Merredin. Here also everything was closed, but still we made our lunch break here. After we decided to drive until Narembeen and to stay thee overnight. Our road passed huge grainfields. From time to time there where grain collecting points beside the railway track. In Narembeen we watched a seeder which was about 25 m wide. The camping in Narembeen was an open space and we would have to pay at the municipality hall. Only it was closed due to Easter and so we continued. In Kondinin it was the same, only the site was nicer and we could pay in the motel. So we went to the motel and returned with the key for the kitchen to the site. The rest of the day we read or worked on the computer. In the evening I walked over the sports place and watched to sunset.

Easter Saturday 7^th April, 2012

First we went to shop food, then we drove along the sea. The road had several lookouts. At some place we could go down to the beach. As the sun was shining, the sea shimmered turquoise. We stopped at following places: Blue Haven, Salmon Beach, Twilight Beach (was elected in 2006 to the most beautiful beach of Australia) and Picnic Beach. Everywhere we observed beautiful rocks and beaches. Then we left the sea and went to Pink Lake. The lake was not as pink as I had imagined, but the opposite shore got nicely mirrored. On the shore a sign explained that the lake may get pink due to algaes. A bit outside of Esperance we stopped to see some tractors and other farming machinery. Then our drive northwards lead along the railway tracks. On the way we saw a grain filling station. We drove along grainfields where seeders were operating. There were also a few Billabongs (water holes) and salt lakes at the side of the road. Kalgoorlie was our destination and we reached it a bit after 4:30pm. The first camping was already booked out. The kind lady explained that all the other camping sites are also booked out. We tried nonetheless and were lucky: the next had a free place. We were glad that we did not have to drive 50 km back to try there. As we had some remaining time we drove to a lookout where you could look down to the biggest gold mine of the region. The opencast mine is huge and the machines used cost a few millions. No wonder gold is so expensive. Then we went to the Mount Charlotte lookout to look from above over the region. You can see a few mines and the town.