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On the bright side we panned through the bucket I brought home and we found a couple of flakes of gold! Just happy to find some colour, the collection has started!

Thanks Gcause, yeah well aware of the boundaries, got them in my GPS. Found a few of the old diggings and had a look at a couple of the old mines that are out of the fossicking area to. Next step is to spend a couple of days out there and camp at Glendons. Will give Bruce a call to. Need all...

Just returned from by first metal detecting outing to Talgai with my X-Terra 705. Unfortunately no gold to speak of, plenty of nails, bolts and pieces of iron though! Not fussed, more of a rece and test run for the 705. Pleased that I was digging up real targets. Hoping that I was in the...

Bump: Do you still have the 705?

Thanks for the welcome guys. That Old Coach road was amazing and to think they dragged stage coaches through that, those guys must of had gold fever pretty bad! Jaros I'm on the northern end of the Gold Coast. Pretty keen to get out and do some panning and depending on how hard the bug bites...

Hey All, I recently completed a 4WD trip to Cape York with my 10yr old son and on the return we tackled the Old Coach Road from Laura into Maytown on the Palmer River Goldfields. We had a good look around the old town and all of the gold mining relics there. Well my son has since sparked quite...