Sunday Selections # 731

 

Long ago, Kim of Frog Ponds Rock, (who no longer blogs), dreamed up a meme called Sunday Selections. 

A place where those who were willing could put up photos they wanted to share, new, old, good, bad or indifferent, any photos you please. 

Nothing rude or vulgar though.

And we don't mind at all if other bloggers care to join us.

The meme is now continued by Elephant's Child and I join in as do a few others. Andrew is one.  Messymimi is another. Drop in to their blogs and have a look.

Wisewebwoman has also been joining us more often.

Elephant's Child is still taking a break, the excessive heat is not kind to her.

Beginning today with more of R and V's holiday trip:

they visited the Kalgoorlie gold mine, also known as The Super Pit

I can't quite make out what that sign says, okay, I enlarged it, It says Hannan's North Tourist Mine. You'll notice everyone had to wear the orange safety vests.

some big machinery there

and some REALLY big machinery, see the giant bucket scoop off to the right?

Here's another look at it with R and V satnding inside it. My brother is six feet tall.

one section of the mine

and a view from a bit further around

by enlarging this one you can better see the machines and pipes, this is where they are digging two new holes, R says at this point they were 600 feet down and were expecting to find gold at 800 feet, I believe the white pipe pumps air but I'm not exactly sure on that.

from the Super Pit they went across South Australia to Broken Hill, where Lead and other metals were (are still?) mined, and also this is where part of that famous movie "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" was filmed. What's your favourite scene from that movie? Mine is the desert night time campfire scene.

These signs explain the derrick in the picture above and tells about the Kintore Shaft

Much fun and laughter was had aboard the "Party Bus" although I am not sure this was part of the Broken Hill experience. The Indian-Pacific did make a stop at Adelaide and passengers were taken to the Barossa (wine making, grape growing area) for some wine tasting and this might be from that day.

Definitely Broken Hill now, this person was dressed as one of the Priscilla characters. At first I thought it was a statue,

but he moved around with the crowd.

inside the Hotel were these giant high heeled "Priscilla" seats, I hope they were comfortable. 

a very short video of the entertainment that night, I hope it plays.

and another video showing the town of Broken Hill, the sound you hear is the wind, it was quite strong apparently. I hope this one also plays.

Back at home now (me not R and V)

on a recent Monday Public Holiday I had to walk several blocks to the "Servo" (gas station, service station) to buy my daily newspaper and while I was waiting to be served I noticed pies in the warmer that were rectangular instead of square or round. They were called "Traveller's Pies" and I can see how a thinner, longer rectangle shape would be easier to hold and eat while driving. These are meat&gravy pies, most often eaten with tomato sauce, but some prefer them without.

Here you see me proving that my knees do still bend as I help the girls splash in the leftover puddles after the swimming pool was deflated,

and the next day daddy J inflated the pool again, the sides and trees fill with water once the hose is connected and turned on.

and a wonderful time was had, the girls do love water, probably as much as I did when I was young, though I had a beach within walking distance.

Playing under the water spout, this runs from the hose which is connected to the pool.

I think there was a little bubblebath mix in the water

and of course they had to splash Daddy.