Easy sapphires
While Dad minds baby, Mum and Son sift some soil brought in from the Sapphire fields round Sapphire and Rubyvale not too far west of Emerald in Central Queensland. You can go scrabbling round fossicking (permit needed first) in certain public areas or do it the easy way in the gemfields by going to Pats coffee shop. The soil, water and equipment are laid on in the shop, at a price. Did the lady get any Sapphires? Yep, very small ones but you never know your luck.
It's a fascinating place to visit, friendly I think as long as you read up before you go and don't stray onto private diggings. To have a good look and try your luck, it requires more time than what we could give it. There is plenty of accommodation on the field and paperwork to help you.
Tomorrow will be a few trains for those interested, the line east of Emerald, well Blackwater serves a large stretch of the Bowen Basin and its numerous coal mines, the rail traffic between there and Rockhampton where we had two nights was heavy.
Easy sapphires
While Dad minds baby, Mum and Son sift some soil brought in from the Sapphire fields round Sapphire and Rubyvale not too far west of Emerald in Central Queensland. You can go scrabbling round fossicking (permit needed first) in certain public areas or do it the easy way in the gemfields by going to Pats coffee shop. The soil, water and equipment are laid on in the shop, at a price. Did the lady get any Sapphires? Yep, very small ones but you never know your luck.
It's a fascinating place to visit, friendly I think as long as you read up before you go and don't stray onto private diggings. To have a good look and try your luck, it requires more time than what we could give it. There is plenty of accommodation on the field and paperwork to help you.
Tomorrow will be a few trains for those interested, the line east of Emerald, well Blackwater serves a large stretch of the Bowen Basin and its numerous coal mines, the rail traffic between there and Rockhampton where we had two nights was heavy.