After a short night we took the bus to Spences Bridge, about two hours from Kamloops where we met a real Canadian Gold Panner called Yukon Dan, who showed us all of his secrets. These secrets are basically: Shake and Push!
No, let's start from the beginning: We arrived there at a wonderful place next to the Thompson River and met Yukon Dan, who told us something about gold panning in general and this area in particular. He showed us how to use the pans to get the gold seperated from the dirt shake and push) and he also showed us some of the gold he found in Australia and all over the world and also some small flakes that we could find here at Thomposn River.
After the instructions, we went down to the river and started. First we had to digg to get some really good dirt and then we took our pans and started shaking.
After three hours of shaking and pushing and searching we actually did find some gold. Not the 1 kg-nuggets we expected, but better than nothing!
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| Yukon Dan |
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| Gettin' dirty |
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| Beautiful Thompson Valley |
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| My Treasure!! =) |
Amen! :-)
ReplyDeleteSounds great, Sasu!
Some woman on the radio just said "We come from Japan, Austrrralia a verrry verry beautiful country." Apparantly she was there for the Aufsteirern ;-)
So, greetings from Australia and my personal kangaroo! Just saw Yukon Dan walking by ;-)
Nice =) It was always my dream to go to Aufsteirern in Australia!
Deletesusi!!! great life in Canada uh? i wish i coudl be there it looks awesome!
ReplyDeletehow are things?
school almost starts over here! and its getting freaking cold and cloudy all the time haha but .. its nice good old salzburg
oh curly fries have been out for quite a while already dunno whats going on
It is AMAZING!! Wish you all were here! =)
DeleteAnd the funny thing, even tough I'm in Canada, it's pretty warm here and we sit outside at night all the time.
But going out isn't that much fun here. There's one "club" in Kamloops and it closes at 2 am! And Karaoke sucks! We tried going there on Saturday, only old men eating and nobody singing..
haha, and we don't have curly fries either. but don't worry, they will return!!
Okay, I see, you already told us that it's still pretty warm in Canda. Should start catching up with reading at your previous posts =D Karaoke, Susi, when you get back, we HAVE to throw a Susi-is-back-Singstar-Party in Graz, don't you think so? :D Perhaps in my neeeew flat, in the house right next to my current one... =D
DeleteHave you noticed that you wrote a piece on gold and now all ads are about it? "Canada Gold Trust", "Holz statt Gold". Funny, isn't it? :-))
ReplyDeleteMust be you. I get ads for Hotels in Jasper, city passes in New York and language courses. Oh, how smart you are, Google.
DeleteHaha, Google knows everything :-) indeed, it knows that I'm in deadly need of a bar of gold. Maybe I should write and ask if they could send me one...
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