Boulder Discovery Park, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia

Monday August 1st saw us on the road again towards Kalgoorlie. It was a short trip and we arrived before lunch time. We traveled through Kalgoorlie to the neighboring suburb of Boulder where we checked into the Boulder Discovery Park. This is a Discovery/Top Tourist park and was quite a nice park although the price went up considerably from our recent experiences. $39/night for a powered site before Top Tourist 10% discount. We were set up on a huge site. It was probably the widest site I've ever had as was 15 metres across the front. No problem finding a place to park the car on this one. Amenity blocks were quite clean but not quite big enough for the size of the park. I'll give them 3 Stars.

Sandra and I set off to do some shopping after lunch. We are having a bit of a problem with the water inlet valve and the one way valve to the tanks as well. Our external water filter cartridge was damaged and sending charcoal sediment into the water system. I think I was able to fix the problem with water flowing into the tanks by flushing out the pump. The intake problem appears to be the one way flow control value which is letting water drip back out. We didn't have any luck finding a replacement part so I've cleaned and will catch the drips for the short term. Next off was a trip to Kmart, Woolworths, and Coles to restock. The Ransleys had a number of errands to run as well including a new tyre and visiting an auto electrician for their caravan reversing monitor.

Tuesday was quite windy and Sandra and I kept close to home. More laundry, cleaning, and computer work. I took a trip out to refuel the Jeep and give it a bit of a wash. Should be done with the gravel roads for a while so hopefully it will stay clean. We are heading off for the Nullabor tomorrow so are preparing meals and planning our supplies to be fruit/vegetable free by the time we reach the South Australia Fruit Fly inspection at Ceduna. The girls went for a quick visit with their Cousin, Doug, in the late afternoon.

We had been to Kalgoorlie on our previous trip so didn't do much sightseeing this time around. It is your basic mining town although both Boulder and Kalgoorlie have some wonderful old historic buildings.