Sun, 14th July, 2019 Bush camp, south-east of Eastern Creek, east of Nullagine, WA

7am 13.5 degrees, clear sky and the wind is still blowing hard.

Went exploring and detecting. Saw Dave and Sue who had two bits. No joy for us.

Drove back to the creek below the dry blowing area. I worked more of the creek with my detector and Steve went wandering. I found 5 more bits and Steve got one from up on the top of the ridge.

Went back onto the main track where the good wide road went left and a track headed up over the hill. The track was the continuation of Skull Springs Road and is now only a rough track up and down hills. It is supposed to go down and meet the Woodie Woodie Road but maybe it doesn’t anymore, hence the no through road sign as we first came up into Mosquito Creek. We turned around and headed back then followed the wide road which obviously was put in by the pastoralist as it followed a creek along to a cleared area where we guess they had the mustering yards recently. The road continues but heads north not south so we turned around. Spotted two donkeys – the male had a rope around its neck so maybe the musterers caught it but it escaped.

As we headed back we saw a kangaroo – don’t see many out here.

Back home to the van. Steve hasn’t had enough walking so he took his detector for a walk around the hills near camp – good on him. I made curry pasta and wrote up my blog.

Steve came back with sore feet and no gold so we had our drinks playing Skipbo. The wind is still gusting strongly so not nice to sit outside. Will light the fire later to heat our shower water.

Easy tea tonight – leftovers. Shower then movies.