Today we woke up in the morning to a nice hot chocolate and a bit of toast. We packed up the caravan and we went up to the lookout. Then drove off to the visitors centre to start our mine tour. At the centre we got our orange vests, hard hats and safety glasses. Soon the bus came and picked us and the other people up to go to the mine.
We drove a bit and the lady in the bus told us a bit of information. We soon reached the lookout over the largest open cut mine in the world. I think the lady said it was five kilometres long and two kilometres wide. We took photos of ourselves in the enormous spades of trucks and had a look through binoculars. We spent at least an hour there.
We also got plastic bags to get some rocks. Mum took some of the yellow dusty rock, my brother took some small rocks and dad took one big one that was really heavy for its size. The lady to;d us lots of information about the mine too. And that some of the truck drivers are females and keep their cabs cleaner and tidier.
When we arrived back at the visitors centre we got off the bus and drove straight to the caravan park. We hooked on the caravan and drove off. I mostly listened to my iPod in the car and played my two car games. After a while mum cut up some oranges and gave us some mandarin. After that we had some grain wave chips to get some saltiness in our mouthes after all the sweetness.
Around one in the afternoon we stopped and had a quick lunch. I had two wraps filled with avocado, cheese and tomato. We were soon on the road again. After at least four hours we stopped and filled up the diesel in the car. This was in Cue at around four in the afternoon.
After that we had oversized load after oversized load passing us as we had to slow down. There were two that we had to overtake and it was a near miss! Around six we decided we'd stop at a camp called Granite. We pulled up and mum started cooking beef stroganoff for dinner. It was DELICIOUS!!!! We were soon in bed getting rest for another long day. I did have a good day today too!!!!!!
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