Mt Surprise

River crossing

We headed a little west again to Mt Surprise to have a go at fossicking for more gemstones, this time we were going for Topaz. We had a couple of river crossing to get over, which are always great fun and then we hired some fossicking gear (shovel and sieves) and went and found a spot up one of the creeks. We dug and sieved for about 2 hours and found 12 pieces of topaz! We were amazed just how easy it was and how much we enjoyed doing it. We enjoyed a night camping here and swimming in the river before heading to Cairns.

Digging at our fossicking site

Sieving out the dirt and small stuff

We may have found something!

The Topaz we found

Across another river