Friday, 29 September 2017

Mon, 25th Sept, 2017 Bush camp, near Meekatharra to Lake Mason camp, near Sandstone, WA


6.30am 15 degrees, overcast. Shower of rain washed the awning side of the van for us. Packed away the last bits then said bye to Ross and Lara and Phil. Filled up the truck’s tank.

Bye to Tom and Sandy – she made us some jelly cheesecake slice to take with us.

Back to the Meeka-Sandstone Road and headed south to Lake Mason. Spotted something on the side of the road about 40km from Sandstone which turned out to be a camel. There were 14 of them and they weren’t worried about us stopping to take photos.




Trish and Claude arrived at Lake Mason yesterday and had met Justin and Jennifer who we had dinner with last Saturday BBQ night. Steve had given them directions to where we had detected as we didn’t think we would be back. They said that someone had beaten them too it and hadn’t found much gold. Probably was the caretaker who was here when we first came through – Kev had said where Margaret had found her nugget and he had a 7000 so probably won’t be anything left!!

Strong cold wind as we set up beside the kitchen area. 

Another couple and their son had pulled in to have lunch so chatted with them too.

Rang Erica to say we had moved and update her on how we went detecting. Will have to get onto the boys but the reception here is very limited – worst then last time.

Another couple of ladies, Ursula and Marianne were in a camper trailer so they joined us for drinks. They were from Switzerland but have immigrated out here and love it. We got out our map books and exchanged camp spot suggestions etc.

Claude had the fire going next to the kitchen to cook their silverside so we all sat around that and warmed up as we chatted. Was it a week ago that we said it was too hot to sit around a fire!!

Steve got the donkey shower going and we had a lovely long hot shower as the wind howled outside. At least the wind has blown the dark clouds away.



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