Rob has taken us past many mining relics and through a number of mining towns. Rob has told me much of Mt Morgan. One such story that struck me was of the great wealth that came from the mining there directly led to the formation of the Anglo Persian Oil Company which successfully pioneered oil exploration in in the Pursian Gulf and later became BP.
So today we are headed for Mt Morgan.
More great trails today.
Calide Dam and Power station
One of the new gas pipelines under construction
We stopped at Mt Scoria.
Rob got a flat mid avo so I decided to cook lunch while he got to work changing the tube.
What followed was the most spectacular failure to cook pasta. I will take most of he credit as I wasn’t able to get the little stove to boil the 2L pot in over an hour! I always have a rule of not putting pasta in until its boiling. We thought it was getting close and Raman tossed it in. It never did boil despite all my efforts. Haven’t had this much trouble with the stove before. Perhaps it’s the wood I am feeding it. Anyway that was a milestone for me in culinary disasters :p
Rob took us up a great track that culminated in a nice hill climb to bring us into Mt Morgan. A quick little tour of the town and a view of the mine before we nipped down te hill to the Bouldercombe “Bouldery” pub only to find there was a function on there and there would be no meals. Rob introduced me to the publican, Deano, and in short order we were offered meals and invited in.
We had a great evening, celebrating Rob’s last night with the Sunken Boys.
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