We left Leonora in fine weather but about an hour before we reached our destination of Mount Magnet the rain started and was quite heavy. Fortunately the caravan park here is accustomed to people stopping for just one night so has lots of drive-through sites.
On the way we called into the mining town of Leinster. This town is unusual in that it was not established until 1976 as a company town so has no historic buildings. The shopping centre is better serviced than Leonora which does not even have a hairdresser. There is an olympic size swimming pool and several other recreation facilities for the 1400 people who live here. About half of the population is FIFO but the rest live and work in the town. A helpful Irish woman at the service station told me that you have to have a job in the town to be able to live there.
Sandstone is the only other town between Leinster and Mount Magnet and we had a short visit.
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