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Seven Mile Diggings Qld. - story about taking care
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<blockquote data-quote="Florcole54" data-source="post: 646311" data-attributes="member: 21478"><p>I recently went for a walk around parts of 7 mile diggings following the rain.</p><p></p><p>At the steep decline section of diggings gully, (there is 1-2m drop off to sand) where it goes down and reaches yarraman creek there was a small area were the sand that make up the creek bed were saturated with water and in a semi-fluid state. It appears something at this point, either rock on the bottom or some other solid below the surface was forcing the water to mix in with the sand. </p><p></p><p>I only discovered this when I took a step of rock onto the sand in this section and my leg went through through the sand about 60-80cm, it took some time free it.</p><p></p><p>I urge everyone to to check the integrity of the ground you are walking on in any sandy creek bed that is water logged and invest in a personal locator beacon, especially if exploring alone.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Florcole54, post: 646311, member: 21478"] I recently went for a walk around parts of 7 mile diggings following the rain. At the steep decline section of diggings gully, (there is 1-2m drop off to sand) where it goes down and reaches yarraman creek there was a small area were the sand that make up the creek bed were saturated with water and in a semi-fluid state. It appears something at this point, either rock on the bottom or some other solid below the surface was forcing the water to mix in with the sand. I only discovered this when I took a step of rock onto the sand in this section and my leg went through through the sand about 60-80cm, it took some time free it. I urge everyone to to check the integrity of the ground you are walking on in any sandy creek bed that is water logged and invest in a personal locator beacon, especially if exploring alone. [/QUOTE]
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