Sat, 15th June, 2019 Bush camp near Mosquito Creek, east of Nullagine, WA

6.30am 10 degrees, clear sky – heater on again.

Headed out detecting. Tried further along Cookes Creek but only got a couple of lead shot.

Went to a dug out gully and Steve wandered up the slope. There was lots of spinifex so I stayed near the truck but gave up quickly and just played my games on the Tablet for a while.

Steve gave me a yell to come up as he had just got 3 little bits and feels I should get some with my 2300 as it finds the little bits easier.

I started straight away getting more bits near where he had dug out his three. Steve got a few more.

Had lunch then Steve headed off  along the slope to see if the patch expanded. I continued collecting little bits, sometimes it is just a murmur till you shift the top layer then you get a nice ‘hello’. They are always glad to see me, ha ha.

By smoko I needed a rest so headed back to the truck where Steve was loading in some firewood. He didn’t find any more.

Back to the van to count and weigh our little bounty. Ice-cream tonight yeah. 

The strong wind has blown all day again. The cattle trucks have rumbled by with their load heading for market. There are yards to the north where they had mustered the cattle to.

The fire in the north-west is still burning.

Still very windy at drinks so the fire was quite blustery. Then at 6pm the wind just stopped.

After dinner we drove over to Dave’s camp to use his special phone aerial so we could check my emails as we are still waiting for some 40E permits and permission to detect on some other leases around here. Got two of the three permits through – will definitely put in a complaint about the Marble Bar Mining Registrar, apparently a lot of people have complained about his laziness. Luckily we have the time to wait around. We now have to wait another 3 weeks to be able to access the leases.

A message came through from Margaret. She had picked up our new fridge shelves and that Bob had hurt his back so they aren’t sure when they will be coming up now. Hope he feels better soon so they can join us.

Kayleigh sent a post on Facebook about ‘remembering Toowoomba’ and the first few seconds of the video was of me as Miss Cairns with Helen, Miss Fun In The Sun, on a float in the Carnival of Flowers parade. We had such a good time there with their festival queens. They came to Cairns later on so we had fun showing them around Cairns. I remember we were given a helicopter ride up the Barron Gorge which was fabulous.

The Supercars are racing in Darwin this weekend and the new Ford Mustangs are winning easily.

Virginia and Geoff posted a lovely picture of all their little bits of Nullagine gold on the scales and it weighs one ounce. So glad they have had a great time.

Back to camp to have our ice-cream and watch a movie.

NO PHOTOS TODAY.