We had to call past the visitor centre because Caitlin and Cooper completed their Junior Ranger worksheets and were presented with a badge (also flushing toilets located here!) We farewelled the others who were to meet us tomorrow for the Tom Price tour. On the way we stopped at Mt Bruce to do the short walk to the lookout over the Marrandoo Iron Ore mine. It took us just over an hour to get to Tom Price. The mountain and the town were named after Thomas Moore Price, who worked for the American company Kaiser Steel in the early 1960s. He was instrumental in convincing mining companies it was worth mining here. We checked in to the caravan park and I caught up on some washing. The kids had a swim then we all got ready to go out for dinner. We thought we might get a decent meal at the pub assuming it would popular with all the mine workers - we were wrong!
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