Friday, 26 April 2019

Sat, 20th Apr, 2019 Bush camp near Kurnalpi, east of Kalgoorlie, WA



6.30am 6.7 degrees on the thermometer on the kitchen side and 9 degrees on the one on the table. We stayed in bed.

7.30am it got up to 7.3 and 10 degrees on the two thermometers. Will have to try them side by side to see if they get the same temperature. Regardless it is too cold! Clear sky and as yet – no wind. This is the nasty 3 day cold front they said was coming across from South Aust.

Put on a t-shirt, long-sleeve shirt then my flannelette shirt with long pants to go detecting. Glad I wear glove too to keep my hands warm. I went back to where Brian’s little nugget came from. I got a signal and looked down and a little nuglet was shining back up at me. I called the others over to show them what a ‘sunbaker’ looked like.

The wind picked up but not as strong as yesterday. Clouds are passing over us from the south-west.

20 degrees in the shade and 25 in the sun at lunchtime. I drove Kerry up the hill to try and get phone reception again but it must only be a night-time thing.

The wind settled down by ‘drinks’ time so we sat in the sun having a great time chatting. Steve got the fire going as the stars appeared – spotted 2 satellites. Brian and Kerry gave us a bottle of Fortified Red from a winery they stayed at near Donnybrook. Apparently ‘port’ is registered trademark or something hence they have to call it Fortified Red instead. We had a glass straight away and it was lovely.

6.30pm 15 degrees in the van even though it was closed up all day. I put up the phone aerial and left the phone connected and it flicked in and out of reception. I managed to send off a text to Greg and Tracy to pass on our birthday wishes to Katelin. Sarah is still overseas so will have to send her a belated message via Facebook when we get better reception again. Sent Jon a text too to let Mum and Dad know what we were up to.

8.30pm it got down to 11 degrees so Steve put the heater on. Much better.

Lovely hot shower before bed – will have to put the flannelette sheets on if this keeps up.

NO PHOTOS TODAY.

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