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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