Relics from around camp

Quartz, this is an aboriginal grinding stone, it fits perfectly in your hand.

Old boomerangs, they could be hundreds of years old. 

G,day, not all you find out here is gold, here is some very old boomerangs and grinding stones and i think there called womeras, those things that are used to throw spears,

This is greenstone, its been used by the aboriginies to grind seeds. these grinding stones could be centuries old, maybe a thousand years.

Lots of rubbish from the old timers, this cup might be from the depresion years.

Old hand gun barrel, could be from the 1890s

Still working the patch

Hi, im still going over this patch and sunday i put the small coil on the detector to see if i could find the very small nuggets that the bigger coils miss, i found 12 tiny nuggets weighing 2.7 grams total. Not big dollers in small nuggets but fun to dig up.Stu



The patch

These are the 3 coils that i use, the larger one for finding patches then once found i put the round grey coil on, then to clean up all the little nuggets i use the small coil.

small nuggets that the small coil finds

A NEW PATCH

G,day, About a week ago i found a nice patch of gold, first day i found 10 nuggets then 21 the next day then 12 then 1 then 3 then 5 for a total of 52 nuggets, no big ones so the total weight was 25 grams, thats ok for a weeks work and it would be good if every week is this good. I went back to this spot with some water and a gold pan to see if there is any fine gold in the soil but not a spec of fine gold to be found which sometimes is the case. the nuggets that i found was very reefy so it hadn't travelled far from its source so i'm looking for a reef but yet to find it. cheers Stu

the first 4 days work



2 small nuggets and an ironstone specie

Elvis  ready to go home





found 5 nuggets within a very small area 

Holidays

G,day all, December was my last post so i will update yas all on what and where i went over xmas and January.
I headed down to Perth around the 22nd of DEC and had a look around there for a day and Perth is twice the size it was back in 88 when i last was there, then i headed down to Busselton which was way to busy with holiday makers so i continued sth to Margaret River and that was worse so i drove all the way down to Walpole, the next 2 weeks i spent fishing along the sth coast from Walpole to Albany catching mainly Herring and Trevally. Along this stretch there are some great places to camp right on the beaches with a few good inlets to fish for Bream,

1 kilo Trevaly caught off rocks near Albany

The flora down the sth of WA is a lot different than the goldfields, Black Boys or for the politically correct grass trees seem to be everywhere and Banksias which are one of my favourite trees are all over the place too.



One of the beaches where you camp right on it, how good to smell fresh sea breezes instead of dry outback dust.

Kangaroo Paw



Wine Palm?





As the fishing wasn't the best and Salmon season was still a few months away i decided to head back to Perth and travel nth towards Geraldton. I had heard that they catch good tailor around this time of year nth of Perth so i was looking forward to that. On the way i spent about 4 days in Perth as i had to sell some gold and buy some new tyres for my quad bike and then get them shipped to Laverton.

about 3 ounces that i sold in Perth

 While in Perth i found out that one of dads cousins Chris Allen lives in Wanaroo just a few ks nth so i spent another 2 days there and met his wife and some of their grand kids, geeze the Allens are all the same. After a few days with them i slowly headed towards Geralton and the wind was blowin real bad so fishing was out of the question. Geraldton seemes a good city but because i couldnt go fishing anywhere i decided to head inland towards Sandstone and make my way back to Laverton.



a freindly fellow

big eagles everywhere





rough seas near Geraldton 

Mulga parrots

 Leaving  Geraldton and passing through Sandstone, Leinster, Leonora i arrived back in Laverton with 5 thousands extra ks on the clock refreshed and ready for another year prospecting for gold in the dry outback of WA. After a week of being back one of the fellas that lives here on the lease decidedd to head back east to see his family and asked if i could look after his dog, its a female blue healer only about 12 to 18 months old named Elvis, dont know who he named it after. The weather has been very hot with most days well into the mid to high 40s with the hottest day reaching 48.7 degrees in the shade. I have been detecting early mornings and found a patch which resulted in about half an ounce which im happy with but nothing the last week or so. At the moment its cold and raining and muddy only 20 degrees, a big drop from the mid 40s. cheers Stu



Elvis and a Bungarra

Mexican standoff, in the middle is a roo carcass

This is a pic of the area where camp is

A blind snake i found one night in the kitchen of the shed

half ounce

GREAT FIND TODAY

 Hi all, above pic is of all the gold i've found in November and December, about 3 ounces, as im heading down to Perth in a week or so i will sell most of it and get a better price for it there than in Kalgoolie. Today i headed out on the quad and after a few hours had nothing to show for my efforts and was about to give it away for the day when i swung the detector in amongst some bushes and it screamed, i looked down thinking that it would be rubbish and i saw a nice glint of yellow. I got down closer and couldnt believe my eyes when i saw how big it was. I love finding sunbakers [ gold sitting on the surface ] and this was even better because its the biggest solid nugget i've found weighing 20.4 grams beating my previous best by 1 gram. This nugget is definatly jewlery quality and should fetch a nice price over a $1,000 once cleaned up, it will look great hanging from a necklace, cheers Stu

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EMU EGGS & GOLD

G,day all, not alot happening at the moment as the days are getting hotter and thunderstorms every 3rd or 4th night. Was out detecting and i came across 3 Emu eggs and one was cracked but they were white which means they have been sitting there in the sun for at least 6 months and have been bleached by the sun, I've been getting a few nuggets most days but nothing special but today i found another sunbaker speccimen, i think it has about a gram or 2 of gold in it, not alot but it always  blows me away when i find them sitting there on the surface just waiting to be picked up. Thats what the old timers did, they just walked around picking up hundreds of ounces lying on the surface lucky buggers,
cheers Stu.



specie sunbaker

SNAKES AND LIZARDS

Banded Brown Snake

Getting ready for some night detecting [july]

G,day all,  its bloody hot most days and im detecting mornings only as the electicity in the air gets worce in the afternoon and it effects the detector so not much gold to report, because its hot the lizards and snakes are out and yesterday i came across this Banded brown snake, at first i thought it was a whip snake but later identified it as a brown, it has a black head with 2 small orange bands plus a few black bands furthar down its body, lucky it was only about 14" long so will have to keep an eye out for the bigger ones, cheers Stu