Panning for Gold

15^th July – We had a very long day in the car to get to Charters Towers. We had a bit of luck and managed to find the Miner’s Cottage still open past closing time.

We bought a bag of river gravel and the man there showed us how to pan for gold.  He said sometimes you find nothing and sometimes you find a lot.  We found about $120 worth of gold!!! It was pretty exciting.

 

It doesn't look like much but apparently that is worth $60!

 

Back at the Caravan Park, a bush poet arrived.  He told some funny jokes and some hilarious poems.  One of them was about shopping trolley rage and an old Granny was on top of the shelves throwing “Dunny Rolls” at a poor man who bumped into her.

16^th July – It was another long drive to Emerald. The rain started again.  At one point, a big cow came running toward the road.  Luckily it decided to stop. 

Unfortunately, a few minutes later a big kangaroo jumped out in front of us.  Dad slowed down as much as he could but we still hit it with a big thud and it rolled onto the side of the road.  We stopped to check if anything could be done for it or to see if there was a joey that needed saving.  There wasn’t and it was already dead thankfully.  It was very upsetting.  We were very glad we had a bull bar.