Sapphire

We are currently in the small township of Sapphire, nearby is Rubyvale and Anikie with Emerald being the larger regional centre forty kilometres away. It is a gem fields area.

A large pick, shovel and sieving pan stands outside the caravan park.

We all went fossicking for guess what, sapphires yesterday. I think we are dragging home a couple of buckets of sand (or stuff) from the river bank.

This is apparently  the only miners common left in Australia.

Jordan amused himself by climbing on the roots of a tree in the river bed while Sheridan and I took ourselves off to Rubyvale to suss it out, it was a little bigger but not much. great area to spend a few days.