Scored a new book from mum and dad for my birfdy. I hope it has directions in it. 
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Thanks Scrounger, today. Yep I posted a Bush tucker man doco a few weeks ago. It sparked my interest again when I came across it. Interesting story thats for sure, even if it's nothing more. You'd think it would have been rediscovered by now.
Yep thats the 1. If he's right about that, it has already been mined.
Happy Birthday Chewy.
Cheers, DD
Cheers, DD
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Yeah ya bugger......your post re-ignited my passion for the BTM, think i spent half the night watching bloody youtube vids and then had those great pedal-steel and acoustic guitar tunes stuck in my head for days!
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Happy Birthday Chewy, Hope your havin a great one. Dream BIG mate
yeah I was the Meta. Watch one and it sucks ya right into watching more.Metamorphic said:Chewy said:
Yeah ya bugger......your post re-ignited my passion for the BTM, think i spent half the night watching bloody youtube vids and then had those great pedal-steel and acoustic guitar tunes stuck in my head for days!
happy bday mate, looks like a great book let me know how you go.... might be a road trip adventure i there
PS ive got lasseters diary haven't read it yet
PS ive got lasseters diary
haven't read it yet
Hells yeah! Make it a PA meet at Alice and set out from there.G0lddigg@ said:happy bday mate, looks like a great book let me know how you go.... might be a road trip adventure i there
PS ive got lasseters diary
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Haha awesome
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Now that would be a serious PA meet. Not sure i could get a leave pass for that one though, but i'd try :lol:Chewy said:Hells yeah! Make it a PA meet at Alice and set out from there.G0lddigg@ said:happy bday mate, looks like a great book let me know how you go.... might be a road trip adventure i there
PS ive got lasseters diary
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/357/1443162333_20150925_162646.jpg
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Good doco by the BTM!
Interesting thing is, 2 experienced bushman in the party both said that Lasseter struck them as a man who had never been in the area they were searching and heading?
Good doco by the BTM!
Interesting thing is, 2 experienced bushman in the party both said that Lasseter struck them as a man who had never been in the area they were searching and heading?
I think he was trying to separate the crew
The thought crossed my mind but......One of them continued on with Lasseter and stayed almost until he died making the assumption late in the journey when it was too late!
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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 readers own thoughts. Like most of us, I learned of Harold Bell Lasseter's tale in primary school but knew very little of the whole story of Lasseter and the expedition that ended in tragedy.
As Brown observes, Lasseter was once a name that could instantly spark fierce arguments, engendered strong opinions and robust convictions that rallied countless gold-hungry expeditions into the dead-heart of our country. But for all of it and the modern searches undertaken using today's technology, I'm of the view that Lasseter was indeed a man of eccentric, if not deluded and questionable character who tried all sort of scams and schemes on all sort of people during the desperate times of The Great Depression. Less of a moral judgement and more of an observation of a resourceful and inventive character during tough times.
Very entertaining and as a few have already commented here and as Brown observed, there is a modern and timeless relevance to Lasseter's story and the pursuit of his lost reef - the indescribably priceless treasure that exists within the thoughts and hopes of all prospectors that if they just keep looking, dig one more hole, try one more lead or likely looking bit of country, we just may find our own El Dorado yet, the treasure is always elusive and just beyond our outstretched tired and aching arm's reach.
Go beg, buy or borrow it; I'm pretty sure you will love if not live the adventure.
Regards,
The Peacekeeper.
As Brown observes, Lasseter was once a name that could instantly spark fierce arguments, engendered strong opinions and robust convictions that rallied countless gold-hungry expeditions into the dead-heart of our country. But for all of it and the modern searches undertaken using today's technology, I'm of the view that Lasseter was indeed a man of eccentric, if not deluded and questionable character who tried all sort of scams and schemes on all sort of people during the desperate times of The Great Depression. Less of a moral judgement and more of an observation of a resourceful and inventive character during tough times.
Very entertaining and as a few have already commented here and as Brown observed, there is a modern and timeless relevance to Lasseter's story and the pursuit of his lost reef - the indescribably priceless treasure that exists within the thoughts and hopes of all prospectors that if they just keep looking, dig one more hole, try one more lead or likely looking bit of country, we just may find our own El Dorado yet, the treasure is always elusive and just beyond our outstretched tired and aching arm's reach.
Go beg, buy or borrow it; I'm pretty sure you will love if not live the adventure.
Regards,
The Peacekeeper.
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