Thursday, 11 July 2019

Sat, 6th July, 2019 Bush camp near Upper Mosquito Creek Mining Centre, east of Nullagine, WA



7am 16.8 degrees, cloudy with the south-east wind still blowing strongly making it feel a lot colder that the thermometer says.

Decided to stay in the van for a while and play Skipbo. Steve still on a winning streak.

Brian and Kerry came over for a chat at smoko time.

Played another two games before lunch. The wind settled and the sun is peaking out now so we headed off to detect. Only two little bits for me. Nothing for Steve.

On our way back we chatted to a guy on a 4wheeler. Chris from Adelaide – funnily he lives only two kilometres away from my cousin, Chris. Small world. He showed us a lovely 3g nugget he just found in the creek – fancy that. He has also dug up 20 pieces of rubbish too though. He has been detecting for 4 months and only has 18 grams so we didn’t feel too bad about his finding such a nice nugget. We offered for him to join us as he felt a bit vulnerable around near the dry blower.

Steve and Brian went off to collect more firewood. The wind has settled down. Kerry still wandering with her detector trying to find the next patch. She has the ‘bug’.

Ray and Carol texted – they got their new tyres and had the car serviced in Newman so they are all good and back detecting.

Kerry came back empty-handed. The not-so-nice part of detecting – finding the next patch.

Chris joined us for a drink. He has retired at 35, 10 years in business with his brother running a computer data bank company, 7 days/week, 24 hours a day – too much stress. He decided he should get out and enjoy life. Obviously he did very well financially too. He purchased a trailer and 4 wheeler in Kalgoorlie and has been slowly working his way north.

The wind picked up again at 7pm – inside for dinner.

NO PHOTOS TODAY.

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