Friday, 26 July 2019

Fri, 12th July, 2019 Bush camp near Upper Mosquito Creek Mining Centre to Bush camp near Mosquito Creek, east of Nullagine, WA



7.30am 18.3 degrees, clouds still in the north-east but blue sky for the rest. Gusty breeze.

Packed up then had a cuppa with Kerry and Brian going through their info about places to see and good places to camp up the coast for when we head there over summer. I will catch up with them in Cairns in October. They were packing up too and heading back to the pending area so it will be interesting to see how many more little bits of gold they can find there.

We headed off back up Skull Springs Road then back to where Ray and Carol are camped with Dave. We pulled in near their van. Didn’t unhook as we are planning to drive out to one of the 40E permit leases so we don’t have to drive back and forth each day.

Had lunch, 28 degrees in the van. I did some baking while Steve took my detector for a walk. A vehicle came in and then Steve. The couple, Carol and Merv from Hervey Bay, wanted some advice on where they were as they were new to all this. They had a 40E but couldn’t work out where they were. We set them straight and enjoyed a nice chat with them.

Steve found two little bits on a hill nearby. Ray and Carol came back so we joined them and the others for drinks around Ray’s little gas bottle fireplace – bit lacking compared to Steve’s big fireplaces!! They don’t sit outside till late like we have been doing with Kerry and Brian so they don’t need a big fire to keep warm. Got all the goss on what has been happening over the past two weeks.

The wind settled after sunset. Ray and Carol are going to stay here so we will see them around or in a couple of weeks before we head down to Newman.

Inside for dinner and movies.

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