Kalgoorie to Northam

The penultimate leg was to take us to within 100km of Perth so that we could get a good start to our 'moving in' day.

Coolgardie is an interesting place. Before they found a shed-load of gold at Kalgoorie, they found a moderate amount round here. Did they put up a lot of temporary stuff in case it was just a flash in the pan? Of course not. They went ahead and built a whole new town. Then everybody buggered off.
A shop that isn't. The only shop-like bit about this shop is the window.
There's a park with sculptures and old mining stuff. Here's a bloke on a camel - no doubt celebrating a past citizen who, well, got on a camel. Is that Lenin in the background? Who knows.
The more mining part of the park.
A bit of pipe. Not any old pipe, though. This is a bit of the almost 1,000km pipe that brought water to the area. No water, no gold. This is heroic stuff.
This is, I guess, a Big Thing. The Big Ned Kelly or Big Pikey depending on your point of view. Well, half of him, anyway. The top half, thank goodness

Had a little stop at a lookout - though there wasn't really much to look out at - and here's proof that I haven't yet driven the car off a cliff.
Everybody knows that when you walk up a hill, you have to add a rock to the cairn. Well, Kim does now.
More water-pipe stuff. This one of the pumping stations.
Finally an actual biggest-in-the-world something. This is where the rabbit-proof fence crosses the road.
And that's quite a fence. It does beg a few questions, though. Assuming that it was to keep rabbits out (or, I suppose, in), how did you guarantee that all the rabbits were one side of it? There really isn't much point in building a rabbit-proof fence THROUGH rabbits, is there. TO ONE SIDE makes much more sense. If the fence builders, quite apart from fence-building skills, had also mastered rabbit herding then we should be told. Unless you sort of shout 'all bunnies over here' and they move. That would be good.

Oh joy, another Big Thing. The Big Camera at Meckering.
Also, the site of one of Australia's biggest earthquakes measuring 6.9 - luckily, nobody noticed on account that this is probably the last place you would want to live. Didn't do the rail lines much good though. Fortunately, the Big Camera survived.
On to Northam which has (hmm, let's see if I can get all the qualifiers right) the longest pedestrian suspension bridge in Australia. It bounces.

Bridge / river / fountain. There are supposed to be white swans round here (no doubt all owned by H.M. Liz) but I'm buggered if I saw any.
Found some ducks, though,

And, anther bloody caravan park. Conveniently located 3km out of town - which may have been 300 given the walk to the nearest pub - this was the worst yet. Advertising itself as 'The Caravan Park on the banks of the Mortlock River' - yet forgetting to tell you that said river hasn't seen any water for years - this place is a dump. If I never see another caravan park for the rest of my life, it will be much too soon.