7.30am
21 degrees, clear blue sky and light breeze. Jon sent a text for Father’s Day
so we rang him back for a chat. Steve gave Terry a call too.
Unfortunately
no rest for Father’s Day as the tyre needs fixing and I’m not doing it!! While
he sorted that I caught up on my blog and updated Facebook.
We
hooked up the van and headed off onto a pending lease – been applied for but
not granted yet so we can detect on it. We parked the van in an open area as
the track deteriorated so we headed up the track in the truck to check out the
other pending lease further along. The next lease has an old dry blower and lots
of rubbish left behind.
It
is over the old area called ‘Upper Mosquito Creek Mining Centre’ according to
the Hema Map. We drove up Mosquito Creek for a bit to get there!! A nice big
shed here and of course more rubbish.
Drove
further around and found some old shafts. You could walk into this one but of
course I didn’t.
They
are easy to spot with the shiny shale on top.
We
detected around here for a while. Steve scored with 4 nice nuglets. One was
having a sunbake so he didn’t even have to dig for it.
Drove
over the hill and found another mining camp area – well the remains of sheds
and caravans.
No
more gold so we headed back to the van. Decided to take the van back to the
hand pump spot as we don’t have phone service here and we did back there. Also
there were shady gum trees to park the van under as it is starting to get a
hotter during the day.
Steve
made the money for both of us today, 2.7 grams.
Set
up again and got the fire going for dinner and to heat our shower water. Steve
rang Jeff to see how he was going. He got an ounce from Ruby’s Well so we might
call in there too.
9pm
21 degrees in the van.
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