We got up at around 10 am today to do a tour on the mine. We began at the visitor centre where we got our safety helmets and goggles. We then entered a tour bus to take us to the mine. It was about a 10-minute drive there and the first thing we saw was a 2-kilometre-long train leaving the mine loaded with iron ore. We then drove past a big hopper that loads the iron ore onto the train. We had to stop at a small spot and wait because we needed permission to go to the actual mine. There is some shale down there and it can spontaneously combust and release toxic gas into the air. It was fine for us today, so we got to go up to the mine. It is an open top mine in Tom Price, so we didn’t have to go underground to see it. Currently it is a massive pit in the ground with some water in the bottom. The water looked quite nice to swim in except that apparently it was acidic waste from the mining equipment. We got to see all these different pieces of iron ore and they explained the difference in low- and high-grade iron ore to us. They also explained how they mined it except it was very complicated and a lot of it went over my head so I can’t explain it. There was also this very big, decommissioned digger at the mine which was cool. A really big water carrying truck came by, spraying the roads with water to prevent dust from picking up. Apparently, they can hold 100,000 litres of water in them. After that, they took us around the rest of the mine. We went to a lot of facilities, and we even saw some conveyor belts carrying iron ore with them. After we went to the mine, we came back to the van for about an hour and then we went to Hamersly Gorge. It was an hour drive on a dirt road, but it was surprisingly smooth. When we got there, we climbed down about 150 stairs until we got to the bottom of the gorge. There was a big water pool right in front of us at the beginning, but we decided to go further on before swimming in there. The next part was really hard as it was a completely flat and smooth rock that was really slippery and steep. It took a long time to get up there and I almost fell backwards into the water multiple times. When we finally got there, we had to climb up another steep slope but this time it was very grippy and had lots of footholds in comparison to the other one. When we got up there, it was a really big drop to the next rocks, so I ended up finding my own path up a big mountain and then down around. By this point, we were next to a second swimming hole, but I wanted to get to the spa at the end of the walk. It was really difficult to climb over there though, so I had to turn around and go back. After that, we got into our bathers and swam through the swimming hole into the spa. It was so difficult to get in as the rocks below it were covered in algae which made it incredibly slippery. After a really long time of struggling to get up, we finally got in there. It was a small pool with a waterfall going into it, but it was only a tiny bit warmer than the other pool and still freezing. We then got out of that pool and came down to the next pool. It was very cold in there and even though it was 34 degrees, I was shivering a lot. I only spent a few minutes in that pool and then I came out. After that, we left the gorge and came back to the van. We then had dinner and went to bed.