As I do without if I don’t have enough money to buy something and save for purchases it was rather nice to drive this thing home earlier. Two owners from new with a full service history and it is in immaculate condition for its age. I’m looking forward to some pleasant motoring this year.
Where we were working.
Nice trap!
Checking out a trap where I found a nice little picker.
Ah, but it rained overnight on Friday and the river flooded. So we all piled into Terry and Janet’s mobile home and told stories and laughed over coffee and quail’s eggs, then went shopping in Helmsdale, visited Timespan, drove through Strath Brora and down Dunrobin Glen and had dinner and drinks in the Royal Marine Hotel in Brora to round off a superb day.
Sunday the river was still high but there was gold to be found!
Crevicing proved to be the only successful method due to the spate conditions.
Gold from the crevices.
Not a bad haul for the weekend considering the rain.
My gold for the weekend.
This particular burn in the Highlands is hard work and you can go home some days with very little but it has a nice habit of rewarding you with a cracking little piece of gold from time to time.
Looking upstream from where we were working
Looking downstream
Nice little picker!
