7am
14.2 degrees, bit of cloud in the east but mostly clear with a gusty wind.
Went
back to our scrapes – no one there. Continued slowly working the area and found
some more and I got a nice little specimen (gold stuck on rock). Steve found
some more too. We think we have cleaned it out but nobody gets it all as they
say.
Home
for lunch then we drove back to the main road to try and get better phone
reception so I could put in the 40E permits for Marble Bar. We parked up on a
hill and got reception using the truck’s big aerial and patch leads. A text
came through from Rick so we rang him back. He has been having some fun up the
Palmer with his gold machine.
Connected
to the internet and went online to upload some blog entries then put in the 40E
permits – you have to repeat everything that is on the form and you have to
have a scanned copy of the signed form. I took a photo then had to convert the
JPG file to a PDF to be able to attach it to our submission – talk about
fiddly. Then I went to pay for it and my virus thing wouldn’t allow me – said
it was an unsafe site. Seemed strange as it is WA government. Rang their help
line and he said just to turn off my virus thing – great help as I don’t know
how to do that. Changed back to the phone and rang the office to see if I could
just pay over the phone but they had already finished for the day – really!
Rang Mum and Dad for a quick chat – all good there. Rang Kerry and Brian – they
are going to Karjini then will come up here. Rang Bob and Margaret – Bob all
good now so will head up once he gets his new glasses. Rang Dan to ask him
about the virus thing. He and Fran celebrated their 2nd year of
being together.
The
sun was setting as we headed back – I sent a text through to Ray and Carol to
say we were heading back so they wouldn’t worry as we didn’t think we would be
this long. More prospectors heading in to Mosquito Creek.
Ray
and Carol were still sitting around the fire so we got a drink and filled them
in on the saga of trying to lodge the online 40Es. They had a bad day too,
staked a tyre and his detector is playing up and needed resetting.
Luckily
I had an easy dinner planned for tonight.
NO
PHOTOS TODAY.
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