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Porters Retreat & Grabben Gullen
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<blockquote data-quote="Chiron52" data-source="post: 339237" data-attributes="member: 10176"><p>Hi Pawny. A couple of decades ago I did a lot of digging at Porters Retreat. Found quite a few sapphires too. I remember we would spend days digging holes all over for little return and usually would finish our trips sieving gravel out of the creek bed and that is when we would get most of our finds. Most were small but with the odd nice one to sweeten the pot. </p><p>Unless you'd seen the many HUGELY deep holes people had dug around the creek you wouldn't believe how much that place has been turned over. We grabbed a couple of sieves one day from a temporarily abandoned "crater" and found 3 or 4 nice stones in each of our top sieves plus a lot of smaller stones in the bottom sieves. (Unfortunately we had to get out before the owners of the "crater" returned) </p><p>Early last month "the boss" and I returned to Porters for the first time in more than 20 years. Spent a day there for a couple of tiny blues. "The boss" dug a hole next to the water for half a dozen small zircons. The highlight of our trip was watching a young fox come right up to us for a feed of cracker biscuits - then hung around nearby for the rest of the day. </p><p>We are planning to be back there for another shot later in the year, when the weather is a bit warmer.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/10176/1497604871_fox.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/10176/1497604905_porters.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chiron52, post: 339237, member: 10176"] Hi Pawny. A couple of decades ago I did a lot of digging at Porters Retreat. Found quite a few sapphires too. I remember we would spend days digging holes all over for little return and usually would finish our trips sieving gravel out of the creek bed and that is when we would get most of our finds. Most were small but with the odd nice one to sweeten the pot. Unless you'd seen the many HUGELY deep holes people had dug around the creek you wouldn't believe how much that place has been turned over. We grabbed a couple of sieves one day from a temporarily abandoned "crater" and found 3 or 4 nice stones in each of our top sieves plus a lot of smaller stones in the bottom sieves. (Unfortunately we had to get out before the owners of the "crater" returned) Early last month "the boss" and I returned to Porters for the first time in more than 20 years. Spent a day there for a couple of tiny blues. "The boss" dug a hole next to the water for half a dozen small zircons. The highlight of our trip was watching a young fox come right up to us for a feed of cracker biscuits - then hung around nearby for the rest of the day. We are planning to be back there for another shot later in the year, when the weather is a bit warmer. [img]https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/10176/1497604871_fox.jpg[/img] [img]https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/10176/1497604905_porters.jpg[/img] [/QUOTE]
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