Friday night before the gold panning Championships we’re aiming to camp at conroys gully but headed down the ida valley just before poolburn schoolon the sweeping bend at the moa creek turn off the driver had a medical event and becane unconscious doing 80km into the bend.
I had to try take control and kerp two kids calm as I maneuvered my mate like a puppet taking is foot off the gas and into the brake, while taking directions from the kids to avoid the tree and came to a halt as we went through the second fence. Our driver was quite unconscious for some time while the older boy handed me the phone and the youngest helped me drag their dad out of the bounty 4x4.
Went and camped by the red Clyde bridge till the next evening, picked our mate up from dunstan hospital and continued to conroys. Luckily we had a second vehicle following us. Thanks Jordanxx
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Should have given me a shout when you were in conroys. Only 2min from there would have caught up for a hour or two
Didn’t think at the time sorry cam went in denial mode and all pretending it was ok. No gold panning competition and we went home the next day but got an hours detecting in with my dodgy gold bug coil for these two bits off the bedrock gullies into the dam.
na all good mate, if you make it back up give me a shout, i have poked around there a wee bit and never found anything, need to take the 5000 for a walk round that side, just dont want to go too far from the lake as most of it is earnscleugh station.
used to get a bit panning round the edges of the dam when it was low
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