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Golden Quest Discovery Trail

Locality: Kalgoorlie, Western Australia

Phone: +61 408 511 969

Address: Suite 4, 171 Piccadilly Street 6430 Kalgoorlie, WA, Australia

Website: http://goldenquesttrail.com

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23.01.2022 To compliment the information at the stopping points along the trail, 25 tracks have been recorded to bring your adventure to life! The tracks are available free for download and provide an insight into life during the goldrush. You can choose to download all 25 tracks at once, or download select tracks only from https://goldenquesttrail.com/home/trail-audio/ #GoldenQuestDiscoveryTrail #GoldenQuestTrail #RoadTripCountry #DriveYourselfWild #SchoolHolidayActivities

22.01.2022 Site 2 // Kunanalling There are at least two Aboriginal names associated with Kunanalling - 'kuna tutali' and 'kuna kunalpi'. The latter is believed to relate to a dreaming story in which an ancestor spirit in the form of an emu travelled through the area, leaving its droppings. These became features in the landscape, including a rock hole not far from the old Kunanalling townsite. https://goldenquesttrail.com... #GoldenQuestDiscoveryTrail #GoldenQuestTrail #Kunanalling #RoadTripCountry #DriveYourselfWild

21.01.2022 Site 7 // Menzies Cemetery An ornate headstone at Menzies Cemetery, two kilometers north-east of Menzies. The Cemetery is well worth spending some time in on your Golden Quest adventure - one of the largest of the gold rush cemeteries with many stories to tell. ... #GoldenQuestDiscoveryTrail #GoldenQuestTrail #Menzies #MenziesCemetery #OutbackGraves #Cemetery See more

20.01.2022 No doubt the Goldfields has spectacular skies. Karlkurla Bushland Park and Mt Charlotte Lookout are popular spots to enjoy the show - where's your go to place to watch the sunset? ... Cheryl Wheatley #GoldenQuestDiscoveryTrail #RoadTripCountry #GoldenQuestTrail #AustraliasGoldenOutback #goldenhour See more

20.01.2022 Site 23 // Rowles Lagoon If arriving with camping equipment, Rowles Lagoon Conservation Park is an excellent place for an overnight stay. Hours can easily be spent exploring and relaxing in this delightful wetlands environment. https://goldenquesttrail.com/... Image Courtesy Katie Anderson #GoldenQuestDiscoveryTrail #RoadTripWA #RoadTripCountry #AnotherDayInWA #rowleslagoon

17.01.2022 Site 5 // Goongarrie Only the stationmasters residence and two of the platelayers cottages survive of the several built just south of Goongarrie station to accommodate railway employees. It could be argued that these simple but solid bungalow-style cottages are early examples of 'kit homes', having been built to standard Public Works Department design specifications - the materials likely pre-cut, transported to and put together on site. https://goldenquesttrail.com... #GoldenQuestDiscoveryTrail #AnotherDayInWA #RoadTripCountry #DriveYourselfWild #Goongarrie Goongarrie Cottages Image Courtesy Lynn Webb

17.01.2022 FLASHBACK FRIDAY Kalgoorlie-Boulder’s famous Golden Mile once considered the richest square mile on Earth has produced more than 60 million ounces of ...gold since 1893. In 1962, the Golden Mile was producing 53 per cent of Australia’s gold production and the ABC’s Four Corners program asked the question: how long will it last? Chamber of Minerals and Energy president Edgar Elvey replied: I would say that for at least another decade there will be significant mining still in Kalgoorlie in 25 years. The ore is finite there has to be an end to it I’m certain I won’t see it. ABC Archives

15.01.2022 In the Goldfields, the 'bush tucker' includes 'walku' or quondongs (a type of fruit from trees related to sandalwood that is also used for medicinal purposes), 'kampurarr' (bush tomatoes) and wattle (or acacia) seeds. The 'karlkurla' (native pear) is still widely used as a food source among Aboriginal people in the Goldfields. When eaten young it is sweet and juicy. When more mature it is cooked to retain it's sweetness. https://goldenquesttrail.com/ #goldenquestdiscoverytrai...l #goldenquest #goldfields #bushtucker #roadtripcountry Image Courtesy Bush Ghoodhu Wongutha Tours

14.01.2022 Leonora-Laverton Rd closed due to a fire and lack of visibility. Please avoid the area. Police stopping vehicles from travelling the road. Fire located about 35kms from Laverton. #fb This update came from the Laverton Police on Twitter.

13.01.2022 Site 12 // Hawks Nest In February 1895, at the age of 21, John Aspinall set off from his home at Skippers Point on New Zealand’s South island, bound for far-distant Coolgardie. Before he boarded ship at Dunedin, he was warned ‘not to go on any account’. ... One old man ‘who had just come from over there’ advised him to ‘tell as many lies as possible and trust no one’, advice that the young adventurer considered ‘not the kind of thing that has been instilled in me’. Aspinall reached Coolgardie late in March. A year later he was dead, struck by lightning near his camp at Hawks Nest, south-east of Laverton. Read more about John Aspinall in the Golden Quest Discovery Trail Guide Book, available from the website https://goldenquesttrail.com #GoldenQuestDiscoveryTrail #GoldenQuestTrail #JohnAspinall #HawksNest #RoadTripCountry

13.01.2022 An interesting read!

11.01.2022 Stay connected to The Golden Quest Discovery Trail by following us on Instagram! @goldenquestdiscoverytrail View highlights from the trail and share your adventures by tagging #GoldenQuestDiscoveryTrail #GoldenQuestTrail... https://www.instagram.com/goldenquestdiscoverytrail/

11.01.2022 Great tips from the road from our Golden Quester Marion Halliday

07.01.2022 Site 3 // Ora Banda Ora Banda, which can loosely be translated as meaning 'band of gold' took its name from a mine that had been established by the Weston Brothers, former tea planters from Ceylon. The town enjoyed a longer life than most of its contemporaries and experienced a mini-boom in the 'Great Depression' years of the 1930s. #GoldenQuestDiscoveryTrail #RoadTripCountry #RoadTripWA #AnotherDayinWA #orabanda... https://goldenquesttrail.com/ Non Native exotics are a common sight particularly on former townsites. Courtesy of DMR Photography.

07.01.2022 Site 1 // Coolgardie Coolgardie's historic Warden's Court is the starting point for your Golden Quest adventure. Inside you will find tourist information and an extensive display celebrating the discovery of gold and Coolgardie's rise to prominence as the birthplace of the Eastern Goldfields. ... #GoldenQuestDiscoveryTrail #GoldenQuestTrail #Coolgardie #RoadTripCountry #RoadTripWA See more

06.01.2022 The sun sets on another year in the Goldfields! Wishing you a safe and prosperous new year. See you on the trail in 2021! @australiasgoldenoutback... #GoldenQuestDiscoveryTrail #GoldenQuestTrail #Sunset #HappyNewYear #NewYearNewAdventures See more

06.01.2022 Bush Lollies from around Leonora Have you seen any on your travels?

05.01.2022 Are you a Golden Quester? We are looking for people who have travelled along the Golden Quest Discovery Trail to share their experiences with fellow travellers. Message us on Facebook to be featured! Check out highlights along the trail and tips for the road from other Golden Questers on our website! https://goldenquesttrail.com/... #goldenquester #goldenquestdiscoverytrail #roadtripcountry #roadtripwa #gwalia Gwalia State Hotel, image courtesy of Jo and Paul Cox

04.01.2022 Rediscover the local history through the artefacts and stories on display in the Museum of the Goldfields Ngurra Yiwarra permanent exhibition.

03.01.2022 Travel the Goldfields...virtually! Our mobile phone app has information on all 25 sites of the Golden Quest Discovery Trail with insights into the life of early prospectors and tales from those that made it rich or were lucky to leave with only the shirt upon their back. Makes for an excellent teaching resource for kids too! Download the app today! ... https://goldenquesttrail.com/ See more

03.01.2022 Site 13 // Laverton The first Europeans to traverse the region were explorers, followed by sandalwood pullers, then hundreds of prospectors in the mid-to-late 1890's. https://goldenquesttrail.com... Image: The remains of an old Sandalwood camp, Laverton #GoldenQuestDiscoveryTrail #RoadTripWA #RoadTripCountry #Laverton #GoldFields

01.01.2022 Site 9 // Kookynie An Aboriginal name for the Kookynie area is 'lungkutjarra', which is possibly a reference to a black snake. Read more about Kookynie in the Golden Quest Discovery Trail guidebook, available to download or as a hardcopy at: ... https://goldenquesttrail.com #GoldenQuestDiscoveryTrail #GoldenQuestTrial #Kookynie #RoadTripCountry #DriveYourselfWild

01.01.2022 Alex Garner of Intents Offroad shares tips from the trail in our latest 'Golden Quester' interview #GoldenQuestDiscoveryTrail #GoldenQuester #RoadTripCountry #RoadTripWA #Goldfields