7.30am
10 degrees, clear sky and gusty wind. It was down to 5 degrees outside this
morning. We thought we would be a bit warmer coming north but the cold front
has come up this far too. Should have put the heater on this morning but slowly
the sun started to warm up the van.
Detected
a few different spots but found nothing other than one old shallow shaft where
I found the end of the old timer’s pick.
Had
lunch then decided to go back to where we were first parked on the quartz to
try that new country Abe talked about.
Detected
till afternoon cuppa with no joy. Steve and I went for a drive further up the
lease to check out the ground but it was either big lumpy quartz or flat sand
and spinifex and there weren’t any tracks off the road to be able to get the
vans in. Back to Ray and Carol. We decided to head back out as we didn’t feel
like this was going to be a profitable spot for our detecting. Ray and Carol
had camped near a creek near the turn off onto the Gunbarrel Highway so we
headed back there. We got phone signal as we drove along and Malcolm rang but
the signal soon disappeared.
After
we had set up camp we rang Malcolm back as we had phone signal here. Freezing
down there, didn’t get over 10 degrees all day.
We
chatted about movies while we sat around the fire, trying to remember actors
names (needed the tablet and Google) and having a great laugh about different
movies we have watched.
After
dinner while we were watching a movie, Tom and Sandy rang. Great to hear from
them again. It was 2 years ago yesterday that we met them on the mining lease.
They would be in Meekatharra next Thursday if we were there then but I think we
will be on our way north by then.
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