Yesterday I enjoyed my first real day’s sniping. My mate and I couldn’t have wished for a more perfect day. It was warm, there was a beautiful breeze to keep the midgies away, the river was cystal clear and we both found some nice gold. Perfect day out!
Where we were working. My mate getting down to bedrock.
Me in my new drysuit taking a look under the water.
Checking the cracks.
Me in my new drysuit.
My gold for the day included some nice little pickers.
Had a great day out with one of my mates, who found more gold than me! In my defence, this was my first foray into sniping and I spent most of my morning trying to keep my mask from steaming up and wondering why my snorkel kept filling with water.
River was low so in the afternoon I picked a nice deep pool and had a swim around admiring the underwater view (through my steamy mask and between bouts of spouting water out of my snorkel)
I did find a nice crack though and took most of this out of it. The big piece is between 0.2 and 0.3 gms
Met up with Leon Kirk, one of the UK’s top gold snipers, and a few other friends at Kildonan last week and what a week it turned out to be. Learned loads, the weather was amazing and I went home with 3 gms of best Kildonan gold.
Leon Kirk getting ready for work!
Here is me kitting up in the sunshine.
Jamie hard at work.
Leon sniping.
Leon sniping around the edges of the waterfall pool.
Leon Kirk showing off a day’s haul.
A weeks work – 9.2 gms split 3 ways, just over 3 gms each.
And here is Leon on telly showing off his nuggets to Nick Crane.
