Retirement Day (Mum)
After doing our shopping this morning and preparing for the Nullabor, we headed off for our Super Pit Tour. We were able to go through the whole mine site with a guide explaining the process to us. It is a very expensive business mining gold. The Super Pit is over 3 kilometres long , a kilometre wide and 500 metres deep. As you look into the walls of the cliff you can see some of the mine shafts dug by the early gold miners. Apparently some of their shafts go down 1600 metres. That would be really scary as they were all underground mines.
The trucks are huge and the whole process is quite complex.
We are off to dinner to celebrate my retirement and then we tackle the Nullarbor tomorrow.
