Friday, 26 July 2019

Sat, 20th July, 2019 Bush camp near Mosquito Creek, east of Nullagine, WA



7.30am 16.2 degrees, clear sky and no wind.

A gusty breeze sprang up from the south just when I decided to cut Steve’s hair. Haven’t done it for a while and boy it is long and thick at the back but still thin on top!

More exploring different areas trying to find that elusive gold. Managed to find a little bit each before lunch.

Followed a track along a creek that wound its way up through very high hills to a lovely valley. Unfortunately it was overgrown but it would have been lovely to walk up the gorge. Someone had camped here as there was a big fireplace made of quartz.

On the way home we stopped at an area that looks like lunar landscape. I wandered over some broken quartz at the top of a slope hoping for a glory hole like Kerry’s. No glory hole but I got a couple of quartz rocks that sang and when Steve hit them with the hammer out came some little bits of gold. I continued working the area and ended up with more bits of gold, some on quartz, others as nuglets. Steve put on his Sadie coil to try and snag a bit but it could hardly here my targets – the 2300 certainly is more sensitive. We are both glad we bought it as it has proven very handy.

As we turned into our camp area a little fairy wren darted across the track – haven’t seen on of those for ages.

Nice afternoon chatting as the wind has gone again.

Left-over stew with griddle scones – I am getting good at these. Warmer evening so left the windows open for a while. Watched the Pearl Harbour movie – very good but I can’t watch all the shooting etc when I know it really happened to people.

The wind sprang up again as we went to bed.

NO PHOTOS TODAY.


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