Friday 26th
June
On Friday we
went panning for gold in a river bed with no water which makes it
easy and hard because we don't have to swim in the river bed but we
don't know how to pan for gold with no water. By the time we we're
done we had some gold and we were watching double barred finches.
 |
| This is me panning for gold. |
 |
| These are double barred finches. |
Mum's note:
No, we didn't invent dry-panning for gold.... we actually took water with us and recycled it through the pan to find our three tiny little gold specs and some gold dust. We did this just out of Charters Towers at a public fossicking area called Young's Block. Very satisfying to find your own wild gold, even if a fortune remains elusive! The Double-barred Finches were after our water, and the waste from our panning, presumably because they were after the seeds in it.
Before we went gold hunting, we spent a while in Charters Towers at some of the historical attractions. We visited the Stock Exchange Arcade and saw the Calling of the Card (a presentation of a stock exchange session), the Ambulance museum and the local park where a large colony of flying foxes resides.
 |
| The grand Stock Exchange Arcade. |
 |
| The Calling of the Card presentation. |
 |
| A very early ambulance - a horse-drawn stretcher. |
 |
| An ambulance essentially the same as the railway ambulance seen in Cloncurry, except roadworthy. |
 |
| Flying foxes in Charters Towers. |
No comments:
Post a Comment