This morning I dropped the car in for a service, etc. We then went grocery shopping because we will not have access to any big shops for a few days while crossing the Nullabor.
We will probably not have Internet or phone signal for 3-4 days either????? I'm hoping to be off the Nullabor by the afternon of 02 August if possible so we can take Lorelle out for dinner on her birthday!
At 1:30pm we went on the Superpit tour where we drove in a mini-bus onto the mining site and had a tour around. Well, it's a bit mind boggling to a non-miner. The pit is over three km long, a km wide and almost 600 metres deep. The most interesting thing I found was how the huge open cut had little holes everywhere - this was where the underground miners of the past 100 years had dug tunnels prior to a company digging the huge open cut. These underground miners had dug down to depths of 1500 metres!!!!!
Following the tour, I collected the car ($608) and everything now seems to be working well - very please to have the air-conditioning going again.
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| At the base of the superpit, machines are digging holes in a grid pattern for the explosives. |
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| I hope this guy isn't reversing....... |
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| The walls on the far side are riddled with old underground mines! |
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| Lorelle ready for action! |
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| I want one of these for Christmas! |
Depends on whether you have been naughty or nice to get a pressie that size for Xmas.
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