The following day we travelled to Menzies, Broad Arrow and then on to Kalgoorlie. Broad Arrow was so named because the man who discovered laid a trail of broad arrows for his son to follow him. At the height of the goldrush there were 15,000 residents but it is now a ghost town. The old Broad Arrow Tavern is noted for having almost every wall covered with handwritten notes from past visitors but is now closed.
Menzies is another goldrush town with a number of fine sandstone buildings. The town hall has a clock with an interesting history. The clock is actually 4 clocks, a master clock inside the building and 3 slaves on the face of the tower. The town bought a clock in the early 1900’s and the ship carrying the clock was sunk in a storm and the clock was never recovered. It wasn’t until 1999 that Menzies finally got it’s clock. What really struck me, was after waiting 100 years to get a clock why would you have a clock that showed the 3 faces all with different times and all of them were wrong.
We finished our day with a stop in Kalgoorlie to look at the superpit, a gigantic open cut mine which is still operational and a visit to the Miners Hall of Fame. We also stopped in Boulder and Kambalda before heading on to our overnight stop in Norseman at the Roadhouse motel.