our campsite at karalee dam,

campground at karalee dam, taken from on the dam wall.

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karalee rock, the wall around the base catches rain water and feeds it down the viaduct to the dam this was built to provide water for the railway to kalgoorlie, all around the area the 'rocks' like this have little walls around the base to catch rain water.

karalee dam from the end of the viaduct.

and, whats a trip to kalgoorlie without a visit to hay street, the 3pm tour was chockers so we came back for a special tour at 4.30, at $18 a person its probly worth it, if for no other reason than to say you have been in the only original brothel left in hay st

 Kal, from the top of the water tank hill, they have a flasher name but cant remember it, we did a bit of a drive around town waiting for the brothel tour.

our campsite at lake douglas, HUGE free camp area with drop dunnies and its only 15K to Kal.

emus on the side of the lake

 on the walk around lake douglas

the homestead at goongarrie station, another old pastoral lease that has gone back to NP, there are three buildings here, a shearers cottage and the sandalwood camp, all have flush dunnies and solid fuel water heater for hot shower! water comes from rain water tanks so probly not a good idea to lob at the end of a drought! controlled by DECWA in Kalgoorlie and costs $10 per person a night($6 for us seniors)  all buildings are open and there is NO grafitti/vandalism in any of them! the wood carving by the gate is one block of wood.

inside one the old barn/workshop

 inside one of the cupboards in the workshop is a litte pink shoe box that has the ashes of Bill........

 and in another cupboard, some signs of life, were two but the other was too quick.

no eggs for breaky from here....

maybe this bastard got the eggs!!!

set up behind the homestead, note the iconic hills hoist, there is two flush dunnies just out of picture to the right of the hills.

the kitchen inside the homestead, there is a visitors book in the lounge room thru the yellow door on the right, funny to read the kids comments, one was from couple of kids who went looking for gold "we didnt find any, but it was fun digging holes in the earth" can not got over the fact these buildings are not locked, there is no caretaker on sight and you can see all the graffitti/vandalism.

loading dock on the property, mechanics shed room is behind this.

and sunset at tjukayirla, i think i can feel a red coming on!!!