Woke
to the sound of pitter patter on the roof. 7am 24 degrees in the closed up van.
Overcast with more pitter patter.
Headed
off for one last go on our scrapes – hope the rain holds off.
We
scraped some more dirt off and cleared another row then the phone rang. The
heavy clouds have given us a signal up here!! It was Jeff checking in after I
sent him a text about our big nugget yesterday. He is still at Ruby Well and is
finding some gold from the old pushed workings. It is raining down there and
still cold.
I
went over our scrapes with the 2300 but the heavy cloud is making it very
warbly so I am having a hard time making out the light signals. After a while
it settled down and I got one signal, then another and another in a small area
where we had taken a few off yesterday. We scratched around the big ones holes
but couldn’t find another ‘hunker’ unfortunately.
A
few scuds of rain passed over us but it cleared up a bit by lunch. We ended up
with 11 nuglets. Steve went for a wander up the creek to where he found the
original nuglet but he couldn’t find any more or where it would have come down
from. Last photo of our landscaping – will have to come back next year to see
if the rain takes it down another layer or two.
Had
to get a photo of the ugliest and nastiest tree here – it has very hard crinkly
leaves with very sharp nasty spikes.
Weighed
our little nuglets and were pleased to see it added to 3.02 grams – worth the
20 minute very slow drive out there.
Robert
and Robyn rang – they are at the 4 Mile Diggings already. We packed up and
headed into town to get some water. We spotted them on the hill. It is very wet
in town so they got more rain than we did. When Steve went to fill up he saw
one of the water caps was missing. He had undone it last night as the back tank
was burping and then forgot to tighten it when we left. We filled up and went
up to park near Robert & Robyn then had a cuppa and a chat. Drove back
along the road and then onto our track and found the cap about 100 metres from
our camp. What a relief.
More
little scuds of rain came over but cleared up as the afternoon went on. Had a
great afternoon chatting. Still windy from the north with some big dark clouds
in a band over us.
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