Furthar off the beaten track

G,day all, well i headed out for a two week stint in the bush looking for a lost and abandoned mine, [ its lost cos i havnt found it yet ] first stop was an area ive looked at before and i spent 2 days there and found just 3 small nuggets, the pic above was taken from a hill not far from where i found the 3 nuggets and the white speck right of centre is the campervan, after this i went looking for the mines and it took all day but i finally found them and they were about 2 ks nth from where the map says they were, i unhooked the camper from the trailer and found that the rear step/bullbar and tow bar was just hanging on by a few lose bolts,the roads are terrible at the moment, 2 bolts had been sheared off and the rest were bent and i couldnt tighten them, i was about 20ks from the nearest dirt rd and well off the beaten track so i decided to stay for a couple of days seeing as though i was already there, alot of searching and walking in all directions around the mines and i came up with ziltch gold but the veiws and birds that i saw made up for it, the first parrots i saw were Port Lincoln parrots, large birds and emerald green with a blck head which looked amazing in the wild, the second parrot i saw i couldnt identify until i got on the internet when back in town but it blew me away with its colours, it was a Mulga parrot which i had never seen before and the pics i took were shockers so i downloaded some pics of them so you could see what they look like, after another day i decided not to work on the van out here in case i made it worce so i headed slowly back to town 90ks away and broke a fan belt on the way in. Its 29/8/12 and im in Laverton c/van park again and i spent all day fixing the van and bought new bolts at the servo and now its ready to go again but ive booked in for a week so i will do some local detecting until next week when i head off again, the gold has dropped off a little latley so i hope that changes soon, cheers Stu
below [A few good nuggets i found near town ]

the old not so lost mines,

i would love to go down them and have a look but to dangerous on my own,

veiws from the top of an outcrop, its amazing the flowers that grow amongst the rocks

below is the outcrop that i climbed

another mine close by

this is the Mulga parrot, just amazing colours, this parrot is about the size of an Eastern Rosella

the Port Lincoln parrot, its about the size of a crimson rosella