This morning we discovered that the day parking area of Centennial Park is very popular with locals as it hosts a coffee van. It seems as if everyone in Kalgoorlie needs a coffee fix before setting off for work - it was so busy we chose to forgo the pleasure. Instead we headed off and had a drive around town seeing it as a tourist would. There are so many grand old buildings in Kalgoorlie that we wished we could have had more time to explore. Unfortunately we are still trying to catch up with friends who left Melbourne a week or two before us (we had planned to travel together from the outset but we were delayed). The highlight for me was seeing the famous Hay Street brothels - I will have to come back and do the tour some other time. Once on the road we stopped briefly at the nearby town of Coolgardie, also another gold mining center in days gone by as indeed was/is Kalgoorlie. Then it was on down the highway always flanked by the large water main that brings water from the west for these thirsty towns. Lunch was had at the lovely town of Southern Cross at the rotary park. Next stop was Merriden where we scoped out a free overnight stop but for whatever reason I didn't feel comfortable staying there - perhaps it was a little remote and also it was raining heavily - so we continued to Tammin Roadhouse after first getting some essentials at the local IGA. Here we camped at the side of the roadhouse toward the back and settled in for the night. The only strange happening was a small workers truck pulling up nearby and two presumably Muslim workers getting out and attending to their prayers on the gravel apron rather late at night. Once I realised what they were doing I felt relaxed after feeling apprehensive at first.
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