well ive driven all the way back to leonora as the food and fuel is alot cheaper than laverton and the caravan park much better and cheaper too.
ive had some fantastic sunrises as you can see in the pics but not so sunsets, the gold has kept comming all week and i have dug up my largest nugget ever which went 6.2 grams, not a monster but still hope for that another day, total gold nuggets came to 82 nuggets weighing 52.38 grams.
friday morning was the only day i didnt get any so im thinking that i might have got it all in this area but ill spend 2 or 3 days next week going over the area more and if nothing more turns up ill try new ground but they tell me never leave ground while your still digging them up.
One day i had my head down concentrating on detecting when i heard a funny noise but it took a few seconds for it to sink in, i looked around and about 70 metres away was a wild brumby, he was snorting and kicking up dust and just acting crazy while staring straight at me, i put the detector down and ran at him waving my arms and yelling but he didnt flinch then he just kicked up more dust and it was obvious i was tresspassing according to him, i picked up a few rocks and threw them his way but that realy pissed him off and charged about 10 metres towards me and it was about then i shit myself, a quick look around and theres no trees i could climb as you can see from the pic and the car was about 200 metres away but i decided to make for the car and slowly walked towards it after puting the detector in a tree about 5 foot off the ground, when i got to the car and with his eyes never leaving me i got the .22 out and thought now whos gunna be boss, i got back to where i was stading before and fired a shot to his right in the trees and thats when i realy upset him, he started running up and down kicking the in the air dust flying and i put another shot to his left and after 4 shots all up he decided to go back the way he came but he wasnt impressed, the rest of the day i was waitin for him to come running out of the scrub at me but didnt see him again, about an hour after he left i looked up across the clearing where the brumby went and i see a bloke swinging a detector, WHAT THE, where the hell did he come from, i went over to say g,day and his name was Wes and hes with a mate from perth that are camped about 3 ks away, he said he climbed a hill and seen my car and wandered over, they wernt getting any gold and i told them i had found just a few, the next day i met the manager of the cattle station that im on and he wanted to know if i had a dog as he was putting out baits as he said theres a few wild dogs here so now the .22 goes with me and the detector, hope yous like the pics, can anyone identify the lizard it has a very long tail with white hoops around it.
Hi Stu, Couldn't pick out the gold in the pic and looked up lizards, could be Mulga Dragon, that's the closest I could find. Looks as if you are having FUN?, think of the stories you can tell your grandkids! Keep finding a bigger one every week and you'll come out on top. Look after yourself, love Mum
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