7am
21 degrees, clear sky and cool ESE wind. The wind blew all night.
Packed
up camp. Said bye to Mark and Heidi as they headed out to find another spot to
detect. Mark had found a Garmin (handheld GPS) that someone dropped a while
ago. The batteries had corroded but he cleaned it up and it worked. It even had
some waypoints and the chaps walking track so Mark checked the co-ordinates and
found some were for the caravan park in Leonora and the others were around
where he had lost it – no gold treasures unfortunately.
Drove
into Leonora to fill up the van’s water tanks and grab a couple of fresh
vegies. Rang Mum and Dad as we aren’t sure about phone service where we are
headed. The sun is out again in Cairns and after a nice chat Mum said Doreen
had just driven in so they will have a lovely time catching up.
Headed
north up the Goldfields Highway. Two big dump trucks near the railway area waiting
to go to a mine somewhere.
Further
up we had to pull off the road – Mr Police car made sure we did as he drove
towards us on our side.
Then
two big trucks came loaded with an excavator and dump truck. Maybe they came
this way to avoid going through too many busy towns like Kalgoorlie etc.
Continued
on our way then stopped at Sullivan Creek for a cuppa.
We
then turned off onto the old Darlot Road then around the south end of another Round
Oak mine and we headed up Rob’s graded road to Jungle Well. We are west of
where we were at 10 Mile Outcamp, still on Tarmoola Station. A geologist
working on taking samples around the old gold mine open cut pit showed Rob and
Glen some lovely sized nuggets he had found. Hence we took out a 40E Permit to
see if we can find where he got them from as we know it wasn’t on the actual
mining lease. We are on an Exploration Lease which is owned by a nickel company
so we would never had looked here. A lot of ground to search but here’s hoping
we fall over a nice patch.
Found
a spot to park with a bit of shade (we still going to have some high 30s
temperature this week) on salt and pepper ground (good indicator for gold) but
it is quite lumpy stuff. There has been an area nearby cleared of the rocks so
will give that a going over with my detector.
We
are near the old Jungle Well. It still has water but isn’t operational as Rob
used the old gold mine open pit for the cattle as it is full of water.
Lunch
37 degrees and no wind which makes it feel hotter. We played a game of 3 to
Kings and Steve won so we are one game each on this new score sheet.
Big
gust of wind blew through but luckily no dust with it. A light breeze then
started which was nice.
I
read my book while Steve went for a wander with his detector.
Some
clouds came across the sun so I took my detector for a walk over the pushed
area – only found bulldozer swarf and a button. Steve just got lots of
exercise, walked for 6km.
The
flies are very friendly so we had our drinks in the van.
Jon
rang for more information about camping at Marina Plains – so glad he has some
great friends to do these things with now. He is wanting to get a small tinnie
now so he and Jess can go exploring and fishing.
The
wind has picked up which is cooling things down a bit. Lovely sunset colours.
Nice
evening – didn’t need a fan on.
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