A Gold Adventure

[C. Nyal de Kaye]

We have been out of action for over two years due to my wife's ill-health. After two operations and twelve trips to hospital the doctors declared that she was well enough to go away again; so we hooked up the off-road van and away we went. My wife's sister, who is also a prospecting nut case, came with us in her own car and caravan.

We headed for Western Australia and, at our rate of travel, it took ten days to get there driving from Sydney across the Nullabor Plain to Kalgoorlie and then another 600kms north from there. We were looking for somewhere that had not been flogged by thousands of other prospectors with Minelabs.

 

[SeniorSeeker]

Incredible story mate. Thanks for sharing it with us Yanks. In one of your pictures, I see one of the ladies dressed rather warmly and it's funny but we here don't think of Australia as being cold. I guess we can learn something new every day hey?

 

[steve in so la]

Thank you for the trip & pics. Sure do enjoy your trips, Steve in so az

 

[Mike from MI "Iron Brigade"]

Great post. thanks for sharing. Don't be a stranger! God bless.

 

[Ma Betty in MO]

on finding gold nuggets whether largeer or smaller....I'm sure your hearts beat faster digging them up! Thanks for the nice pics and most of the favorite areas I used to detect when I was have been hunted to death but by working harder and slower there are always a few goodies left or was until I wasn't able to detect any more or weren't close and safe enough for me to travel and detect by myself! Sure looks deserted out there and would hate to really get too sick and be one of the graves unless I was very close to Jesus! May God's blessings continue with good health and ability to travel and find gold where most detectorists seem to have already gone! Ma

 

[7centsworth]

Thanks for sharing it with us. Sounds like alot of fun.

 

[Mike Chgo area]

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[C. Nyal de Kaye]

Thanks everyone for your kind comments.

 

[Ma Betty in MO]

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[C. Nyal de Kaye]

Thank you Ma. Actually it's a winter outing down here. It's far too hot to go looking for gold in the summer in Oz with unrelenting heat, no shade and little water.

 

[C.J.M.]

very,very nice nothing lke a cup of joe in the cold mornings mate.bet that lizard could use a cupwhat kind of detector were you using and what size coil???

 

[C. Nyal de Kaye]

That lizard is called a goanna and he/she is about 4 foot long, just a small one as they get much bigger than that. They are harmless to humans and just run away if you try to catch them. They're very fast and climb trees surprisingly quickly.

I use a GPX4500 and a 12x7 inch Nugget Finder mono coil most of the time, but I also used the 11 inch mono Commander coil. On really open ground I used a 16 inch Nugget Finder mono. All of them are very good and sensitive enough for very small gold. The 24 gram nugget in the pic was found by the 12x7 inch Nugget Finder at a depth of 15 inches.

Thanks for your interest and kind comments CJM.

 

[Ma Betty in MO]

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