Unless I stumble into a time machine that is set to wild west I think Kalgoorlie is the closest I'll come to walking down the streets of a olde western town. Complete with full on brothels, skimpies (topless bartenders) and gold flowing like water from a behemoth mine. Actually its more than a mine, its a "Super Pit", how super you may wonder, its the biggest open cut mine in Oz and one of the biggest in the world measuring 3.5 kilometers by 1.5 kilometers and almost 400 meters deep . My brother was the first to point out, that we shouldn't get to excited about a big hole (mind you this is the boy who labeled Ayers Rock just a big rock), but frig, what appear to be tiny trucks working the mine can carry 225 tonnes of rock out of the pit in 35 mins like it ain't no thang. If there was ever a time to let go and marvel at the ability of man to move large amounts of dirt and operate heavy machinery this is certainly it.
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