Headed up five mile for a long day today. Gotta say what a dead loss place this is. Nothing like our creeks on the west coast.
Lets start with the access track. There is none. Heres my tracking
What about walking up the creek. No chance - too many waterfalls and debris. Are there bitey critters?- some but not many. Is it easy to carry a detector and walk up stream. No.
So I got up the first few hundred meters. Found quite a lot of holes that people have been working. Went a bit further up and came across a pile of pipe. I assume someone has been dredging.
Some where around here I found an old head of a sledgehammer - I have left it there for the next person.
Went up a bit further and got a nice solid #4 hit on the Nox. Dug down a bit and ended up with a bit of iron. Oh well onwards we go.
What may be called a track ( I prefer to call it a shist hillside with bugger all stability I came to an end. Except for a bit of a cliff and a rope. Very tricky going down that with a detector and a pan!
Getting to about the 1km upstream point I decided to base my self there.
Tried the usual tricks. Detectoring. More iron
Digging to base rock. Nothing
Panning gravels and sands. Nothing (though I may have one wee flake but I can’t be bothered checking snuffer bottle.
Scraping out crevaces in rocks and trees stumps. Nothing
Panning out miners moss Nothing.
Deteckting - in rockpools, under water falls, under big rocks, under stumps, along the edges, up banks, Nothing!
This was pretty much untouched ground - there was loads of moss covering loads of stuff. But nothing.
At end of day I stil lhasd the detector on. Yet another hit - but bit different this time. A#12. Pulled out an odd green tag. And yet more iron
Then I got lost on a bit of non existent trail. And finally a get something. A pair of sunglasses lying in the underbrush.
And that was my day. I won’t be back. (I’m not even sure how gold gets down to the bridge. There are so many rocks and holes and waterfalls upstream for anything to fall into.
Good luck to others _ I reckon this is what you need. You might need to go five miles up the creek.