7am
13.5 degrees, clear sky and breezy. Rang Mum for her 88th birthday.
She has a chest infection but is on antibotics so all is ok. She got her
driver’s licence again but has to get distance glasses. Dad’s knees are getting
worse unfortunately.
Jon
sent a text to let Steve know one of the chaps he knew had passed away. All
good there, going to see Nana this afternoon.
Wandered
out from camp with my detector. I got a bit near a clump of spinifex but he was
all alone. Continued on and found dig holes from the previous campers who
didn’t fill in their holes. One of the 7 rules of detecting – fill in your dig
holes. I filled them in hoping they left me some more gold. No joy for the
others.
After
smoko Steve and Brian crushed more quartz. Kerry and Brian have been amazed at
how much gold has come out of the crushed quartz rocks. They are learning all
about hard rock mining, using the dolly pot and gold pan.
Bob
and Margaret had been for a drive and came back with one bit.
Warm
day, 29 degrees. After lunch we tried another spot and Steve got a little
ironstone specimen. Nothing for me.
The
breeze was from the south-east then it stopped for an hour then started blowing
from the west.
While
we were having our drinks we toasted Margaret’s huge marshmellows – very nice.
Had a great time chatting then realised it was 8pm so we headed in for dinner.
Sadly
Bob and Margaret are heading off tomorrow, what a shame as they have only been
here 3 days. Bob is worried about the van’s broken spring and wanted to get
home to get it fixed. At least they both found a couple of bits of gold.
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