24/8/23 To Leonora

 

    From Coolgardie , we headed to Kalgoorlie and found it was flat out , no vacancies in any of the parks , so we went to the free camp , which was also almost full - we got a spot after someone had packed up and left . We stayed the night , then did some more shopping , cooking and organising , before heading north - we were happy to be getting out of there , it was crazy busy .

    Stopping at a railway siding for the night at Goongarrie , we had that to ourselves fortunately . Continuing on to Menzies the next day , we decided to stay for a few days and try our luck with some detecting . We found 3 small nuggets and were pretty happy with our efforts , being very much novices at gold detecting .

   Our friends had gone through to Leonora , not knowing that we'd stopped for a couple of days at Menzies , but we caught up with them again in Leonora . 

   Up to Leonora we found some wedgetail eagles just on the outskirts of town - there were 6 of them , all taking turns in feasting on a wallaby that had an argument with a car / truck and lost .  The crows very wisely stood back when the eagles were feasting .

    We organised our first fortnight of detecting on a bunch of leases - we did a course in February that gave us access to these leases . Finding a camp site was interesting when you've got 20,000 odd acres of ground to choose from . We picked a site on the top of a rise fortunately , as we got some storms come through and dump 20mm in a few hours . This was our view out of the dining room window as the storm built and came through .

   This was out the other side .

   Our personal water feature after the rain had stopped .

    In between times we did get a few nice sunsets - the gold didn't really come to us here , so this is as much as you'll see .

    Another sunset .

    We did find 3 small pieces of gold over the 12 days we were there , this is where we were camped .

   After our days here , we headed back into town ( we were only 14klms out ) for a couple of days to wash & shop and get sorted ready for our next location .

   Here's a map link :- https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1-3ehgnH89cX6KkUB4t36-76Jui37Buw&usp=sharing