We are currently in Mt Isa. Mt Isa is a town that has one of the largest mines in the world. They mine for copper, silver, lead and zinc. It's been reasonably warm compared to what we have had most of the time on the way up. We probably wont travel any further North and we will take our time coming home. Today we visited the underground hospital that was built in 1942 because when Darwin was bombed by the Japanese in the world war Mt Isa thought that they would be next on the list because Mt Isa was fairly rich from mining minerals. We also toured a museum to learn about mining. Tomorrow we are going into the mine for a tour of a replica underground mine. But today we had a treat of McDonalds for lunch and Dad and I shared a Big Mac that had 4 patties, 2 on the top and two on the bottom. And a quarter pounder that had 3 patties. Altogether there was 7 patties and we had 3 and a half each in two burgers, it was delicious!
A little while ago we went to a hot spring called Dalhousie Springs it was 38 degrees and the water is heated from underground. We also went to the edge of the Simpson Desert and climbed Big Red which is the second biggest out of all of the sandunes in the desert.
I met this kid at Uluru called Orlando and his brother Jack. They both played soccer but couldn't because their trip interfered with it.
We've done lots of other stuff but you can read about that in the other blogs.
From Lachie
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| The Hospital Beds In The Underground Hospital in 1942 |
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| The Hospital Beds Today |
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| Me On A Piece Of Mining Equipment |
Hi Lachie!
ReplyDeleteIt looks like you are having a lot of fun visiting all those places. We wish we were there enjoying all the warm weather. It is so cold down here, we would love to go swimming in Dalhousie Springs. It would have been hard for the sick people to sleep in those beds because it would have been really cold and damp. Imagine if you had to go to the underground hospital to recover from all those burgers! we hope there wasn't a Lachie explosion!
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