When your social circle decreases, especially as you get older, this can lead to a loss of the sense of connection. It can change a...

Mick is an octogenarian living in Boulder. Each day he wanders down the road and provides the Beaten Track Brewery with fruits he grows...

1. Big machines Wow! Machines are big at the Hannans North Tourist Mine. Huge working machines that dwarf a human. Below are a 793C Haul...

Another activity to do when in Kalgoorlie is the HeART Walk. It was lovely to walk around the city using the map that I picked up at the...

Bingo is a game you often associate with grandmas and Catholic Church halls. Far from this scenario is the free fun bingo held at...

On 21 December 1963 the Sons of Gwalia mine closed and the 1500 residents of Gwalia left town for ever. Trains were dispatched from...

Have you ever wanted to feel like Alice in Wonderland, step into a Tim Burton film, or be like the children in the Narnia books,...

I asked several locals which one of the many hotels and restaurants in Kalgoorlie-Boulder was the best one to visit. The almost...

The abandoned ghost town of Ora Banda is 66kms (41 miles) from Kalgoorlie, and known by many for the infamous and notorious hotel that...

1 and a half hours drive north of Kalgoorlie (8 hours north north east of Perth) lies the small town of Menzies. The town is named after...

Names like funny cars, door slammers, top door, super street and nitro meant nothing to me until a friend invited me along to my first...

When gold was discovered in Kalgoorlie, men arrived by the thousands. Apart from equipment to mine the precious mineral, they had other...

My friend Ingrid arrived in Kalgoorlie back in 2010 looking for mining work. Staying at a local backpackers, she was invited, “Do you...

The Goldfields War Museum is housed in the Boulder Town Hall, in what was originally the library and later a doctor’s surgery. This...

Leading the hour-long tour of the Town Hall in Kalgoorlie was tour guide and historian Tim, who had given the tour of Boulder Town Hall I...

Taking part in the tour of the Boulder Town Hall is to step back to 1908, the year it was built. With the Goldfields being highly...

An old circular structure made up of odd pieces of corrugated iron for walls, and a roof that looks ready to fall down sits out among the...

Having purchased a second hand caravan recently, I decided to set out on my maiden voyage to an outback area of Western Australia....

The still operating Broad Arrow Tavern is one of those unique outback pubs in Australia that should be on everyone’s Australian bucket...

Drive 2 ½ hours south of Perth in Western Australia and you will discover the Wellington National Park. The Park has over 17,000 hectares...