daveggs
David
OK ...
So there I was near Oallen Ford, finishing a test pan I had dug from a likely looking spot.
The usual material was reducing quite nicely ... then my heart skipped a beat!
That unmistakeable yellow glint shone out of my pan, saying "HI!"
I must have gasped or something, because kleinman98 looked up from his pan (to see if I had just injured myself
)
bazza2210 didn't hear me, as he was further away sucking his little pickers out of a pocket he'd found.
He did post a pic of his pickers --> https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=66180
Staring back at me from the pan was the biggest picker I had ever found (all by myself anyway)
(I have got more fingers on my hands, than pickers in my collection)
Not huge by any standards -- but my biggest picker yet!
Anyway, after explaining to kleinman98 that I was actually OK (and showing him briefly what my picker looked like), I proceeded with panning off the excess material ... Then a strange sensation tried to distract me, as I felt a rapid vibration in my shoe! My feet were in the water as I continued, determined not to lose focus at this moment ... Again & again I felt something wiggling and tickling in my shoe ... Was it a little fish maybe? :/ -- or a leech even!? ...
Of all the possible times to get a critter caught in my shoe, I thought -- crikey blimey strewth mate -- WHY NOW!? 8)
Finally managed to get my pan down to a reasonable concentrate, where I could clearly see the nice picker and a bunch of other finer gold glinting back at me ... Satisfied with my effort there, I decided to check on the intruder and took off my shoe ...
There it was -- swimming in the tiny puddle left in my shoe -- a 1 inch, fresh water shrimp!
I laughed as the thought crossed my mind ...
"I've got a picker in my pan -- and a shrimp in my shoe!" ... (Yeehaaw! seems to follow automatically)
Cheers,
Dave
So there I was near Oallen Ford, finishing a test pan I had dug from a likely looking spot.
The usual material was reducing quite nicely ... then my heart skipped a beat!
That unmistakeable yellow glint shone out of my pan, saying "HI!"
I must have gasped or something, because kleinman98 looked up from his pan (to see if I had just injured myself
)bazza2210 didn't hear me, as he was further away sucking his little pickers out of a pocket he'd found.
He did post a pic of his pickers --> https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=66180
Staring back at me from the pan was the biggest picker I had ever found (all by myself anyway)
(I have got more fingers on my hands, than pickers in my collection)
Not huge by any standards -- but my biggest picker yet!
Anyway, after explaining to kleinman98 that I was actually OK (and showing him briefly what my picker looked like), I proceeded with panning off the excess material ... Then a strange sensation tried to distract me, as I felt a rapid vibration in my shoe! My feet were in the water as I continued, determined not to lose focus at this moment ... Again & again I felt something wiggling and tickling in my shoe ... Was it a little fish maybe? :/ -- or a leech even!?
...Of all the possible times to get a critter caught in my shoe, I thought -- crikey blimey strewth mate -- WHY NOW!? 8)
Finally managed to get my pan down to a reasonable concentrate, where I could clearly see the nice picker and a bunch of other finer gold glinting back at me ... Satisfied with my effort there, I decided to check on the intruder and took off my shoe ...
There it was -- swimming in the tiny puddle left in my shoe -- a 1 inch, fresh water shrimp!
I laughed as the thought crossed my mind ...
"I've got a picker in my pan -- and a shrimp in my shoe!" ... (Yeehaaw! seems to follow automatically)
Cheers,
Dave
