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I love simple and smart. This is borderline genius. I'm definitely stealing your idea with thanks. :D

DWT, I do this every Friday night when I leave the Club, never thought of closing my eyes to help adjust my line of sight and when I take two steps the opposite way I usually achieve the fall down bit you talk about!

Thought it was Wamberal, from the background Last edited by Pete_The_Prospector (Yesterday 06:30 pm) What give it away Pete, the sand!

One of my favourite sayings is "you can't educate idiots and you can't put brains in statues". Enough said.

Dreams cost nothing and motivation is everything. Good luck, hope you achieve your dream. If you do strike it rich, remember all you "best mates" on the PA forum.

These words from Paint your Wagon rolling around in my head... "Then I got... Gold fever No romp 'n rollin' girl And fellow stuck 'Cause your the, gold fever Nothin' can help you But the yellow stuff What! Can stop that itchin'? Ain't! Around the kitchen Gold, gold, hooked am I...

Doug, yes to both. I to am interested in the old prospecting ways, so I will try and catch up in April.

Welcome Doug. Great place Tathra. Used to live there in the 70's when I was a policeman in Bega. Owned the house beside the RFS shed on Bega Street. I will be down there (Kalaru) in April for my mates daughters wedding (David Beck) would love to catch up for a chin wag if I can prise myself away...

I think you better talk to the pertinent water authority. Is this property in NSW or Victoria? Unless specified in land title deeds, land owners who have a river or stream running through or adjoining their property gave certain riparian water rights under the common law, but I am sure that in...

Thanks all. They are a great bunch who all love the bush and have all had their interest in fossicking piqued. I hope some do join this forum as it will save me me from explains (insert raving) about what a great site and resource this page is.

David and Goliath. Go the little bloke.

In the same vein a Canadian bloke travels out each year to Bluesfest at Byron and sweeps the venue ground each morning before the concerts start for dropped coin. He says it pays for his meals and drinks for the day.

As the say, a Victorian is Only a Tasmanian that can swim. Someone from South Australia is a Tasmanian who can't swim straight! Boom Tish. Please don't ban me from this forum. :D

A few of the members of the Narellan RFS, including myself, trundled up to Hill End for a few days camp. I had some basic panning gear and some "hand me down" basic knowledge, so we ventured down onto the fossicking grounds for a play in the dirt. Fun was had by all. Fast forward to RFS training...

Nope DWT, but before I lost weight my mates reckoned I was a dead ringer for him, hence the moniker. The buggers pooled their resources and purchased the BUCK rego plates for my fiftieth birthday near ten year back and wet themselves laughing every year as I moan about paying $500 to keep them...

Yep WalnLiz that's what I have done following emailed instructions but I am a true Luddite and nominating the URL has this old bloke stumped. I will learn more and come back to this.

Damn, image will not load. Will work out problem and repost. Sorry.

This is a sapphire I harvested at Grabben Gullen about ten years ago. My wife's late uncle owned Australian Diamond Services and he polished the sapphire and set it with the diamond chips. My wife loves it as she saw it in the rough and now wears the finished product. Img.

I was going to post the same link that Loamer has already put up. I would encourage everyone going bush to print it off and keep in their car. It may just save your life. It is the best document of its kind. I have had it for quite sometime. ;)

A bit of worthwhile advice my Dad drummed into me as a kid in the bush. Always step onto a log then off it, never step straight over it because there could be a carney sunning itself on the other side. Twice now this advice has saved me from potential "shit ditch" situations, both times with...