Friday, 28 June 2019

Fri, 14th June, 2019 Bush camp near Mosquito Creek, east of Nullagine, WA



6.30am 8.8 degrees, clear sky and no wind – heater on of course.

Packed lunch for a day out detecting. Tried a few different spots. Got 3 little bits from blue schist that had been scraped down a slope.

The pastoralist is mustering his cattle and there are two helicopters zooming around rounding up the cattle. Don’t think I would want to be up there with them in this gusty wind. The pastoralist had flown over us the other day in his plane when we were at Millionaire’s Gully.

A fire is burning to the north-west. You now when it has got a good section of spinifex as it goes very black from the oil in the spinifex. One of the helicopters flew over to the fire to check it out.

Another spot Steve got a slight signal and dug down. It got louder so he kept digging. He called me over to try with my detector to try and pin point it as he had now hit hard rock. It still sounded good so he got the hammer and chisel and started chipping away at it. Unfortunately after a lot of hard work the signal seem to get quieter and didn’t seem to be in one spot anymore. We decided it might just have been ground noise or phantom signal, where the minerals in the ground just make the sound of a gold target. Very frustrating but that’s the joys of detecting. Filled in the big hole and drove back.

Stopped in dry Mosquito Creek and collected some more firewood.

Home for drinks around the fire. The wind has settled which is lovely. Can’t believe how much the wind blows over here.

NO PHOTOS TODAY.

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