Wandering Time

Rest time

My home for the next few days in Jericho.

Comments:

Date: 2010-08-19 22:36

Author: a.k

Hi! How are u DESUKA? Your home front of river seems cool NE! I love been near river YO! And I can see your black socks.... OMG (-.-)/

Alpha and onwards

Alpha caravan park wanted $20 for a tent site a night. Bugger that. Instead i ate up. Rested in the park. Chatted with some locals and tourists and then pedalled onwards.

Snows bakery really bakes! So yummy.

The road is very straight. 2.5 hours of slow, into the wind, gradual climbing. Who said out here was flat?

Woke about midnight. Thought i heard an elephant.the park at Alpha had a sign saying no camels or elephants. I know there are feral camels, but elephants? Whats and elephant sound like. At night, in a tent in the middle of nowhere it sounded like one to me. A few sleepless hours wondering, before i drifted off into sleep.

The lady at the shop in Jericho said it was likely a bull or deer. There aren't any elephants loose that she knows of.

Jericho is nice. Small and friendly. Going to stay here a few days for the rain to pass. And do voting here.

Alpha

Surprisingly lots of hills out here. Also lots of grey nomads. Some take there whole house with them!

Have ditched about 10kg of stuff and the bike is noticeably lighter now. Still more that can go.

Some grub has chewed holes in my tent! Hope it got a belly ache! Need to patch them as rain is forecast.

End of prospecting

Well that's over. Time to start pedalling again. Here are some shots from camp.

It was interesting. Not sure if i'll do it again. Its hard work. Either walking bent over to see the stones or digging and washing dirt.

In the end its all just colored glass to me. Bits of rock.

I didn't cull stuff yet, so have a big load still.:(

Prospecting

I'm prospecting from a top secret location, along with dozens of other people. Can't say its that remote, what with mobile coverage.

Prospecting is a lot like fishing. Lots of time in the sun. Nothing happening pretty much most of the time. Rare bursts of excitement. Its also like looking for a needle in a hay stack. Looking for tiny bits of glass like rock, amongst other rocks and broken glass. Yeah, there's a fair bit of broken glass out here of the beer bottle type.

I have found a couple of small stones though. To small for anything except to say I found them.

Unfortunately even out here there are generators running.

Most people are camped on the hill tops so the noise carriers. Being no a hill top also lets you find your camp again. Lots of gullies to go prospecting in. You can wander a fair way.

One thing that is missing out here is water. We had to carry all our water in. So our stay is limited to when that runs out. Probably this weekend.