Thurs, 11th Apr, 2019 Jungle Well, Tarmoola Station, 60km north of Leonora to Pending leases, north of Leonora, WA

7am 28 degrees, light breeze and clear sky.

More detecting – still haven’t found where the geologists found their gold.

Home for lunch, 40 degrees and the wind blowing in strong gusts. The clouds are building again in the west.

We decided to head back to Leonora then try some pending area before it becomes live. Then we will head down to Kalgoorlie and meet up with Ray and Carol.

While filling up with water we chatted with a couple from Brisbane on a 14 week trip of WA. I did my internet stuff. The pending area we were heading too has gone live already so we will go up to the pending leases in our 40E area and detect those before they become live too since they were taken out at the same time as the other ones last year.

Checked the weather – drop in temperature for the next 6 days and chances of showers and thunder storms. Tomorrow should only get to 28 and early mornings in the low 20s. Such extremes.

Rang Mum and Dad in case we don’t have reception where we are headed. She said that Winx is having her last race tomorrow – she has won 37 races in a row. Debbie (nee Ingham) (Mum’s cousin’s daughter) was on TV talking about it. Also we will have to get a postal vote organised as the Federal election is on the 18^th May – Dan’s birthday. Uncle John rang too as Jocelyn’s bad leg had swollen so she went into hospital to possibly have a stent put in. I will send him a text wishing her all the best.

Topped up the fuel then headed to our camp spot. The sky is getting darker and we can see wispy rain falling in the north.

Set up camp by 6pm and managed a photo of camp as it was quite dark with the dark clouds – looks bright and sunny in the photo.  

Still 38 degrees in the van with all the windows open. No wind to cool things down. We sat outside with our drinks till the mozzies drove me inside. Steve persevered till I had dinner ready.

8pm gusts of wind came and went then 9pm we heard the pitter patter of light rain drops on the roof. There was no wind so left all the windows and vents open as we don’t think the rain will amount to much.

Still no breeze when we went to bed but it has cooled off a little.