Tuesday, 19 March 2019

Mon, 18th Mar, 2019 10 Mile Outcamp, Tarmoola Station, 60km north of Leonora, WA



7am 26 degrees, blue sky and wispy clouds with a nice northerly breeze.

Did our morning jobs then played a game of 3 to Kings. Steve started off winning 5 straight then things went bad. He ended up losing by over 100 points – we are even in winning games so far.

Told Dan, Jon and Mum &Dad that I had booked tickets to fly home in end of October for 3 weeks then put a note on Facebook so my friends can mark their calanders.

Had a cuppa then headed down to Leonora. Put in two 40E applications to detect on two exploration leases when we finish up here. I asked the lady about the ‘locals’ detecting and she said they need permits just like us.

Topped up with water. Steve chatted with a chap who was from New Caledonia. He was born in France – his English was just passable. He had worked as a nurse for 30 years and is now retired and travelling the world looking for gold. He has a French detector so not sure how good that is. We were talking about the different minerals in Australia and he said that New Caledonia is the 3rd largest supply of Nickel. The girls at the Mines Dept will have fun sorting him out with permits etc.

Back to the homestead. Kym and Glen were still out doing their bore run so we had our lunch which I brought with us. Steve then put the tyre off the rim that had split onto the new rim we bought using the tyre changer in the shed.

Kym and Glen arrived – they had gone up to St Patricks to see if the dingo/wild dog was there but he was gone. Played 5 games of Sequence – the girls won 3 games to 2. They put up a good fight!!

Just as we were leaving the Mines Dept rang to say my Miners Right has never been put on the system and could we bring it in to show them. Luckily we only had the 30km to go back in so we went back into town and she photocopied it. So much for the 40E we did last year for Halls Creek – that person in Kalgoorlie didn’t do their job.

Dark clouds are building in the north-west. The cattle were having a drink from the muddy pool on the track near home – so much for having to clean their troughs if they are happy to drink that muck when they could have walked a bit further for nice clean water.




Sky looking sinister but nothing is showing on the BOM radar. The clouds have blocked out the sun so we had our drinks on the verandah.

Nice bit of colour as the sun set. Looks like no rain for us tonight.



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