Lee & Jim's Travels: In and around Maryborough Victoria

Hi All

We spent 4 nights at the Laanecoorie not free camp, but only $5 Pn which we call free, I when out with my metal detector looking for gold but only found old nails and bit of rusty tin but it was good to have a look. When I got back to the caravan park we met up with Ron and Marie, Ron invited me to go out looking for gold nuggets the next day, which I jump at so I could learn more about detecting.

We started off at 0630 and only went 4km for camp and started detecting Ron showed me what to look for around in the area's where gold might be located, by pointing out the kind of ground and trees around the area. Ron found a couple of small nuggets and called me over to try my detector over a spot which he thought may have a nugget, I started to try and find it with my detector but had no hope as the ground had lots of iron stone and was just to noisy so he told me to sort thought some of the soil with my hands and pass it over his detector to find the item that was making all the noise and I found a small nugget in some clay which Ron call it a Kinder Surprise, I think I have got the fever and may have to look for a real Gold detector.

We were to stop at Avoca, but when we pulled up in Maryborough we thought we would stay a week and make day runs form here, Maryborough has lots of history and there are lots of small towns and villages around the area.

We had to do some washing and as we have not got a generater on this trip we had to stop over in the caravan park which is right next to the lake and we can walk to Town.

We have driven around the area and have seen Castlemain, Maldon, Avoca, Ballarat, Beaufort and all villages between these towns.
We move on to Halls Gap on Friday morning for 3 or 4 nights and will have a look at the local town around the area.