We headed up north of Alice the next day to take Aidan and Cody to Gem Tree, which is a place they have been wanting to visit since speaking to an older couple we met in Broome. Gem Tree is a well known fossicking area for Garnet. When we arrived we discovered their season has actually closed due to not many people travelling at this warmer time of year and therefore they didn’t have the staff to take us out to their fossicking fields but we were able to purchase a bucket of dirt that we could put the sieves at the homestead. We spent about 2 hours going through this one bucket of dirt and found lots and lots of pieces of garnet, much to Aidan and Cody’s delight!
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| Searching for Garnet |
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| Aidan found another piece |
We are back in Alice Springs for another night, at a much nicer caravan park! We hope to visit School of the Air tomorrow before we begin to head south again, and then head towards the Simpson Desert!!!
We are not sure when we will get internet again.
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