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Coolgardie on the way to Perth

Almost forgotten to do a Blog on the small town out of Kalgoorlie on the way to Perth.There is a lot of early day buildings here circa mid 1880,s from Wikepedia…
Coolgardie was the site of a gold rush in the early 1890s, prior to the Kalgoorlie-Boulder gold rush.
For the prospectors who had rushed here to find their fortune, one challenge was to extend the life of their perishable foods — hence the invention of the Coolgardie safe.The safe was invented in the late 1890s by Arthur Patrick McCormick, who used the same principle as explorers and travelers in the Outback used to cool their canvas water bags: when the canvas bag is wet the fibers expand and it holds water. Some water seeps out and evaporates, especially if it is in a breeze, cooling the stored water.This technology is commonly thought to have been adopted by explorer and scientist Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, who had observed the way some Aborigines used kangaroo skins to carry water.
30 yrs ago when we arrived in this country we traveled thru here and actually saw a pig running out of a Butchers Shop! to this day it is my eldest daughters (6 at the time) an mine an insignificant but everlasting memory !!

March 15, 2013 - Posted by Luxxys Lovely Lived Life | Uncategorized