Sat, 4th May, 2019 Bush camp near Mertondale Mine, north-east of Leonora, WA

7am 14 degrees, clear sky and gusty easterly wind which has blown all night.

Ray and Carol went back to their area and we went off with Kerry and Brian to find a spot. Steve found a little bit which was a start. We tried some old scrapes where others had dug holes and chained in case they left something. Kerry had the detector this time and was having ‘fun’ in some rubbish. I was just heading over to tell them to move away from it when she jumped up excitedly as they had just found a little bit of gold. That goes to show if you preserve long enough through rubbish you can be rewarded. It is her first bit of gold – now she wants a bigger one! Brian’s worried he won’t get a go of the detector now.

Back to camp for lunch, 28 degrees, still breezy.

Tried some more spots but only found lead shot and rubbish for me. Steve was rewarded with another little bit. Kerry and Brian went back to their scrapes and Kerry got another one. As Brian headed back to the car using the detector he got a signal and it turned out to be another little bit of gold so they are both official gold detectorists now.

Lots of chatting over drinks with only Ian this time. They are heading off in the morning and offered us his water as he will only be dumping it. Ray and Steve will get some in buckets in the morning.

Lovely warmer evening so we sat by the fire with Kerry and Brian to have our dinner.

Cooling off as we headed back into the van which I closed back up again.

We are watching the first episodes of Ray’s TV series so we can see if we want them. They were all good so I will do some more swapping tomorrow.

NO PHOTOS TODAY.