We woke up this morning to gentle rain on the roof. As it's the first real rain since we left home 4 weeks ago, and they really need the rain here, we don't mind having a day "at home" in the van. John and Marg came over this morning and we had a bit of a slide show of our journey so far. As they came up here quickly, without side trips, they haven't seen all the natural wonders that we have, so they were quite interested in the places we've seen.
Yesterday we met up with John 2 down at the creek, where he let us use all his labour-saving equipment and gave us the benefit of his wide experience in fossicking. His wife Lyn wears a number of rings made up of lovely stones John's found over the past few years. We had a lot of fun not finding any gems, but when we went down to the other caravan park for happy hour, a woman there had found a pretty stone today, quite close to where we were.
Two Johns separating the rocks from the stones on John 2's lean-to screen, Retreat Creek, Sapphire.
John and Marg sorting through the pebbles- no luck today. Note Ruby the lapdog.
John 2, Lyn, and Marg watching John Dale digging more stones. You can see John 2's set up of lean-to double screen, and "Willoughby" wash setup (green bucket) where the stones get washed using a double sieve which separates the smaller stones before sorting at the small table in front of Marg.
A flock of lorikeets welcomed us back to the caravan, obviously hoping for a feed (but we don't believe it's a good thing to feed wild birds). Then two of them settled on our table, trying to peck holes in our passionfruit- one jumped on a passionfruit but it rolled, so he had to do a little circus act to keep his footing.
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