Share Favourite Photos From Your Gold And Relic Trips

[blackjack]

1 hour ago, GotAU? said:

Yes, thanks for the gum trees!  We try burning them every year, have bugs now that eat them (thrips), but we have no koalas so they just keep growing back!  I hear Africa now has California poppies growing wild as weeds, have you seen any in Australia?

No not poppies, I would much prefer them to gorse, a really terrible weed here in Tasmania and Victoria.

[Dorado]

A few photos from West Australia, north of Meekathara. The gold is about the only time I have hit a patch

A few bush flies ,after all the rain.

Cheers

[geof_junk]

47 minutes ago, Dorado said:

A few photos from West Australia, north of Meekathara. The gold is about the only time I have hit a patch

A few bush flies ,after all the rain.

Cheers

 

 

 

 

A few bush flies ,after all the rain. There was even more in Leonora in 2004 with no rain, they were looking for eyes to go for a swim.🫣

[blackjack]

1 hour ago, Dorado said:

A few photos from West Australia, north of Meekathara. The gold is about the only time I have hit a patch

A few bush flies ,after all the rain.

Cheers

Great photos, as an ex West Australian I know about the flies after rain, before rain, during rain, no rain..... For me the desert areas are much better without the rain. Great after rain, but it's dried, especially in late winter for the wild flowers. Pretty ordinary when it's wet, nothing sticks like that red dirt when it gets wet !

[Northeast]

2 hours ago, Dorado said:

 

 

That is a cracking photo ☝️

Well done 👍🏻 

[jasong]

Abandoned cabin made entirely of dinosaur bones, near the site which would become the first place to really bring fossils into the public mainstream in the 1800's. It has fallen into disrepair and it appears someone is digging it up and trying to move it somewhere else now. Looks like they might have tried and failed and now its sorta sitting there semi-askew with a big hole under it.

A lot of Wyoming is semi abandoned relics of the past. This is an old abandoned uranium mining company town, the whole town was for sale for $200k when I was a kid. By the 90's it was a true modern ghost town, empty of people but still with paved streets/sidewalks, a big school, restaurants/bars, post office, houses, stores, etc. A lot of people my age are in Wyoming because our dads originally came to work at these now abandoned sorts of places, old mining and oil towns. Some people are back there now. An artist bought the old gas station to live in, he sells pottery and apparently now also soup. 

 

[dig4gold]

9 hours ago, blackjack said:

nothing sticks like that red dirt when it gets wet !

Glacial silt after rain isn't so crash hot either.

D4G

[Bootscrape]

Diverse country here in Oz.

 

Never leave home without this...proudly made in the USA.

 

[PhaseTech]

2 hours ago, Bootscrape said:

 

Did you check that dirt for any nuggets?? And yes I mean BEFORE you sat on the seat 🤣

[blackjack]

On 4/12/2023 at 3:35 PM, Bootscrape said:

Since there are many members here from different countries and points of the compass, I thought it may be interesting to start a pictorial thread. Show us favourite pics of the countryside you pass through or hunt in for gold and relics. 

I will kick it off with these from country South Australia.

The Flinders Ranges.

Hey Bootscrape, to see the Flinders ranges, approaching Port Augusta, after crossing the Nullarbor is a sight I never get tired of. Fuel and maccas in Port Augusta then left through Horrocks Pass to Wilmington, does life get any better than that !