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Bravo GT! It is always heartening to hear folks who have an interest and a feeling of affinity and respect for our modern history. More people were made of stern stuff in those days, they gave of themselves with a sense of duty, honour and service. Not that those (who survived at least) early...

OK GT, I finally found it! Whilst surveying Prince Frederick Harbour, King chose Port Nelson as the site to careen the his ship, Mermaid, to repair damage from an earlier grounding at Port Bowen in Queensland. While this was being undertaken, the carpenter found that the ships fixings fixings...

Dirk Hartog Island, Shark Bay WA.

The Boab Prison Tree, Wyndham. It is a large hollow Adansonia gregorii (Boab) tree just south of Wyndham, Western Australia, near "The Diggers Rest" and the Moochalabra Dam (Wyndham's water supply), on the King River road. This "Boab Prison Tree" was once known as the "Hillgrove Lockup."...

Posted this before but, since we are on the subject I will take the opportunity to show the device that I make. Pretty simple, got the ideas from this site and other fora but I now make a few in my spare time and sell them on eBay. Bit of money that goes towards diesel and the costs of my...

Four months between these two pics I took in 2011.

Neo, I have a "Roman" brand sleeping bag that is nylon inner and outer and 100% feather down, which is the inner insulating feathers of geese and ducks. It's Australian made but I'm not sure what it cost as it was issued to me (2011) to use in a place that is very cold and very sandy. It is...

Nice pics Billy. I must admit to my nerdy side extending to Astronomy. A telescope was one the first and probably the only 'extravagant' Christmas presents I got when I was young, maybe the Oldies though it was worth investing in with the vain hope that I might become some sort of Professor...

G'day Rick, Plenty of great advice and a wealth of knowledge available on these pages. Regards, The Peacekeeper.

Mark Twain also get a mention in Peter Fitzsimmon's, Eureka, The Unfinished Revolution. Another worthy literary work. The Peacekeeper.

I wont spoil it for those who have not read it as yet but, Lasseter's Gold was a great read on a recent holiday somewhere warm. Warren Brown does a creditable job in his research and objective commentary and captures the essence of what transpired whilst leaving room for conjecture within the...

G'day Reeks, good to see someone who knows the value of a yabbie pump to help with crevices. Very true sometimes you just have to get down on the ground and give those creakie knees and dodgie rotator cuffs some extra need for neurofen plus and some liquid anesthetic at the end of a days...

The set up use most of the time.

GOLD PROSPECTING HAND CREVICE PUMP - ADAPTS DIRECTLY TO STD 50 MM YABBIE PUMP Yes, that's right, I have decided to produce a few units of the robust, serviceable and most importantly, very effective hand operated crevice pump device that I have developed over the past 18 months for my own use...

Hard luck, Billy and everyone else doing magic on their Webers etc had me craving slow cooked/smoked pork sausages that I like to do on my Weber. But, an early start and a big day out with the kids (a sort of pre-Fathers Day Fathers Day) and about 300 km of driving and leftover BBQ chicken was...

Today I bought an amount of petrol and, a few mates and I went for a bit of a blast out to Kulnura for a coffee and a dogs eye. Damn good coffee, Gordon Ramsay would be apoplectic about the pie though. Now, to the point of this missive, two things I bought a while back. First, David Hills', The...

Northerngold, you are yet another person I envy between Half Past April and Twenty To September in any particular year you care to mention....even leap years as short as they are... The Peacekeeper

G'Day Mark, welcome from another newcomer to the PA website and forum. Enjoy the journey of your new hobby. The Peacekeeper.

Thanks for the warm welcome gents. You know PK, I have never seen hide nor hair of the (in)famous Nundle Guy, in fact I had not even heard of him until I read of him here and on other fora. Such a pleasure surely awaits me....?

Hello Folks, I must start with an apology for not doing an intro before now. I joined back in April after taking some extended leave from duty and earnestly got back into prospecting in the magnificent New England district and the ever beautiful Central West of NSW. As well as dusting off the...