Hello all,
We're from Newcastle
My old dad and I have been prospecting for nearly 40 years, on and off....mostly off.
I am the son half of the "Ditherer and Son" - which, as a name probably won't lead to worldwide stardom or internet notoriety...perhaps I should use an acronym of say "Son of Dithererer"...which would be SOD...hmmm innapropriate...? I think I will settle for "Ditherer" as my short name, as I believe I am genetically pre-disposed to late-onset Dithering...thanks Dad for THAT gene. Like father like son.
In my early 40's, I am now at about the same age that he was when he used to take my little brother and I prospecting in the 70's and 80's. Back in those days dredging was allowed, and he used to do a bit of that with his home made dredge. I remember like it was yesterday, it floated on two tractor innertubes and was powered by a Briggs and Stratton 3/4 HP vertical shaft motor....... I actually typed all of that without drawing breath or consciously thinking.... you can see how ingrained in my memory those things are....you perhaps can tell that I have had gold fever for effectively all of my life.
We never even got that much gold when I was a kid.....but they were great times, the best times for a father and sons.
In more recent years, now that I have some more spare time and he's retired, he and I make the effort to go off for a 5 day prospecting stint a couple of times a year.
We've spent a lot of trips fruitlessly in the Barringtons and Copeland, and a few trips to Nundle over the years.
In more recent years we have been going out to Ophir. This was a turning point. We started finding gold!...more than all of our previous trips combined....do you think this sort of thing is likely to cure my mid-life gold fever? errr No.
Now all I seem to think about is designs for highbankers, making bits of sluices, poring over google earth and other aerial imagery and data. I lay awake at night thinking of the sound my minelab-4500 makes. It's embarrassing but still preferrable to bed-wetting.
I confess to having become addicted to watching youtube videos on the gold prospecting in NSW....<waves at familiar Aussie Youtuberpeople (who are probably in this forum) such as Wal n Liz, Diggerdude, Shivan, TheBoris, and many more to whom I apologise and thank>
On our last trip I had decided to create and post my own videos, so I have published our first 18 minute epic on Youtube which can be found if you search for Ditherer Andson.
Anyway, enough waffle....time for me to begin devouring the many interesting forum topics I will find here. Thanks for having us.
Ditherer and Son
We're from Newcastle
My old dad and I have been prospecting for nearly 40 years, on and off....mostly off.
I am the son half of the "Ditherer and Son" - which, as a name probably won't lead to worldwide stardom or internet notoriety...perhaps I should use an acronym of say "Son of Dithererer"...which would be SOD...hmmm innapropriate...? I think I will settle for "Ditherer" as my short name, as I believe I am genetically pre-disposed to late-onset Dithering...thanks Dad for THAT gene. Like father like son.
In my early 40's, I am now at about the same age that he was when he used to take my little brother and I prospecting in the 70's and 80's. Back in those days dredging was allowed, and he used to do a bit of that with his home made dredge. I remember like it was yesterday, it floated on two tractor innertubes and was powered by a Briggs and Stratton 3/4 HP vertical shaft motor....... I actually typed all of that without drawing breath or consciously thinking.... you can see how ingrained in my memory those things are....you perhaps can tell that I have had gold fever for effectively all of my life.
We never even got that much gold when I was a kid.....but they were great times, the best times for a father and sons.
In more recent years, now that I have some more spare time and he's retired, he and I make the effort to go off for a 5 day prospecting stint a couple of times a year.
We've spent a lot of trips fruitlessly in the Barringtons and Copeland, and a few trips to Nundle over the years.
In more recent years we have been going out to Ophir. This was a turning point. We started finding gold!...more than all of our previous trips combined....do you think this sort of thing is likely to cure my mid-life gold fever? errr No.
Now all I seem to think about is designs for highbankers, making bits of sluices, poring over google earth and other aerial imagery and data. I lay awake at night thinking of the sound my minelab-4500 makes. It's embarrassing but still preferrable to bed-wetting.
I confess to having become addicted to watching youtube videos on the gold prospecting in NSW....<waves at familiar Aussie Youtuberpeople (who are probably in this forum) such as Wal n Liz, Diggerdude, Shivan, TheBoris, and many more to whom I apologise and thank>
On our last trip I had decided to create and post my own videos, so I have published our first 18 minute epic on Youtube which can be found if you search for Ditherer Andson.
Anyway, enough waffle....time for me to begin devouring the many interesting forum topics I will find here. Thanks for having us.
Ditherer and Son
Mick
