Fossicking

Hello!

We are back from down south.
Was a lovely few days away – even had some nice weather! Was actually HOT for a bit! (Only under a sheet the first night but back to blankets the second haha)
We got up pretty early and I drove about half way before I had to hand the vehicle over to Jeff as I couldn’t keep my eyes open!
So I napped a bit, then when I woke up…then I snapped a bit to show you some of the passing countryside!

I love the lush green

Rhododendrons out in full bloom everywhere.

Fab old homes

Water…

Down this way there are a lot of orchards… apple and pear mainly

Possibly all of this not my best photography work haha – never mind. You can get a bit of a sense of what we were seeing this way.

Flowers!!

I didn’t get any photos of our accommodation… pretty non descript, onsite cabin, shared campsite shower block etc.
All slightly… basic.
The cutlery drawer cracked me up. Not so much the mismatching items as the provision of ONE teaspoon, three forks, two soup spoons but several more dessert spoons. Two butter knives… and the most puzzling… two cheese knives!!!
The little things that amuse…

Anyways, out to the digging sites we go.
We did some random digging and fossicking on the first afternoon but got more into it the second full day.
We went to the place Jeff had started digging when he took his last lone trip. We extended his dig either side.
I haven’t sorted through them yet but we found plenty of petrified wood and hopefully one or two tree fern fossils.
The above agate also came from that first area!! (My find!!)

Our cheese knife complete accommodation was only 10 minutes or so from the digging area so we sensibly went back for lunch and a coffee (and to rest our aging backs haha) before going back to the agate rich area to see what we could find there.

I went back to a mud hole I was digging in the first trip and extended that.
It wasn’t all that fragrant… and the mud was pretty sticky… but I got a lovely lot of stones out of it.

I am yet to scrub up most of them but I did get a few cleaned up and took some photos so I had something interesting to share with you!

So many different colours from one stinky mud hole.

Did I mention leeches?
There were leeches.

A bit like a caramel.

By the way, leeches aren’t awesome.

Other couples have short trips away that don’t involve stinky mud, broken fingernails and leeches.
There might be something wrong with us!! 😀 😀
Anyway, I have a few more snaps to share of our last day which I will save for tomorrow or the next day (Our drive to The End Of The Road)

Have a splendid weekend!
Cheers