7am
12 degrees, cloudy with a strong gusty wind. Ray got onto the geologist for
this mining lease and he said we can camp anywhere and gave us a few suggestions
on where to detect.
We
all packed up and moved onto the lease. First we checked out the old township
of Peak Hill. Steve and I had been here in 2016 and nothing has changed since
then. The wind is cold and blowing hard though the sun is peeking through the
clouds now.
Drove
back to the airstrip for a cuppa to work out where to camp. Muriel and Syd
joined us in the van as the wind and flies were both very annoying. Worked out
a track to get across the creek to where the geologist suggested and set up camp.
I
caught up on my blog as it was too windy and cold to detect. Steve got the
fireplace organised – lots of huge lumps of quartz to make his firepit.
After
a warm lunch we took our detectors for a walk. I got a bullet projectile and
lots of exercise – nothing for the others except rubbish. At least we are
cleaning up Australia.
The
wind is still blowing strongly at 2pm, 22 degrees in the van. Muriel brought
over her jewellery she makes while travelling. Lovely pieces.
After
a cuppa we played a few games of Skipbo to pass the time since the gold wasn’t
jumping out of the ground!!
At
last the wind settled as we gathered around the fireplace for drinks and chats.
Ray
and Carol’s grandson is playing in the Qld U18 Rugby team on Wednesday before
the State of Origin game so they are hoping to be able to watch it on the
computer as it will be live streamed on the internet. So if we don’t find gold
here we will be continuing on to Newman so they can watch it and we can top up
our food supplies at the Woolies before heading to Nullagine, as that is the
last ‘good’ shop we will have.
As
the fire died we all headed into our vans to have showers and cook dinner
before the cold got to us. The van is closed up again of course.
The
wind came back about 9pm but we were angled into it so it isn’t rocking the van
about.
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