Gold WebQuest blog
This Gold Quest WebQuest blog is jointly hosted by Caddies Creek Public School and Penrith Public School, in order that students may share their knowledge, understandings, research findings, interests and questions about the Australian Gold Rush era. Both of these schools are located in western Sydney, NSW.
Stage 3 students at Caddies Creek Public School are currently participating in a WebQuest, which requires them to research, decide and justify at which of the following Australian goldfields they would try their luck, if they had lived in the historical period 1850-1870: Bathurst/Ophir; Ballarat; Charters Towers; or Gympie.
Stage 3 students at Penrith Public School are completing a WebQuest about Australian bushrangers.
It is hoped that students and teachers from both schools will be able to share their research findings and experiences online through this blog.
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May 15th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Good luck with your Web Quest Stage 3!
May 15th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Hello everyone!
This is Mr McLean, teacher librarian at Penrith Public School. Our Stage 3 students are studying Gold in their class HSIE unit this term, and investigating bushrangers during their weekly library lessons.
We look forward to sharing our findings.
May 15th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
In Week 1, we did a pre-test about bushrangers, writing down everything we thought we knew, or would like to find out, about bushrangers. We realised we didn’t know very much.
Last week, the four classes had a brief look at a 2008 CBCA shortlisted information book, “Ned Kelly’s Jerilderie letter” (Black Dog, 2007) edited by Carole Wilkinson. It was a book from our recent Book Fair! It will hopefully help us to get to know the real Ned Kelly. He felt he had rightful reasons to be a bushranger and to be very angry with the police of the day (over 120 years ago).
This week, Stage 3 students have been marking up an article with “PMIs” (”plus”, “minus” and “interesting”) to help us explore what we know about bushrangers. The chapter was “Law on the Goldfields” (pp 24-25) from “Gold in Australia” (Macmillan, 1996) by Bruce McClish.
Next week we will start entering our data into blog entries so we can share our information with the students at Caddies Creek.
Best wishes,
Stage 3 at Penrith PS
May 17th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Welcome Stage 3 students from Penrith PS! How exciting to have our 2 schools “blogging” together and sharing our research findings and experiences online. I’m sure we’ll all enjoy studying this very interesting period of Australian history together.
Please post an introductory message about your class so that we can learn more about you and your school.
Happy blogging!
Mrs Scheffers
Teacher Librarian @ Caddies Creek PS
May 19th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Hi Penrith P.S!
We are class 5/6L from Caddies Creek P.S. We have 32 students in our class – 23 Yr 6 and 9 in Year 5. Our teacher is Mr Lehner.
Our school is located in Glenwood, near Parklea Markets. There are about 750 students in our school. Our school is 6 years old and we have some great facilities here.
For example, all our rooms are air conditioned. We recently had lots of rainwater tanks installed so we can look after our environment. Our new outdoor learning area has just been finished so we have a shady area to work during class time and to play in during recess and lunchtime.
We are looking forward to a visit from Deane Hutton who is doing a Science show for each stage. Your parents might remember him from the TV shows Hey Hey It’s Saturday and The Curiosity Show. That will be fun!
We are excited about researching Gold with Mrs Scheffers during our CPT lessons and we are also designing our own Web Pages to show off our technology skills!
Bye for now – looking forward to reading some great blogs,
5/6 Lovelies
May 19th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Hi fellow students,
We are class 6J at CCPS and we are very keen to share our knowledge about the Australian Gold Rush. We have 31 children in our class and most of us are very sporty and good looking!!!!
Our uniform colours are navy blue, white and maroon.We can also wear our Yr 6 t-shirt to school.
We are very interested in this unit especially bushrangers. Please write back and let us know what you have learnt so far.
From the Miners in 6J
May 20th, 2008 at 8:56 am
Hello researchers from Caddies Creek and Penrith. I was wondering who could find out who the first Australian bushranger actually was? I also wanted to find out why the Australian Government tried to keep the discovery of gold a secret. Interesting.
I am keen to read your opinions on our blog.
Happy researching,
Mr Lehner
May 20th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Hello Penrith Bloggers,
We are class 5Q from CCPS. There are 27 students in our class and Miss Quinn is our lovely and wonderful teacher !
Our school motto is Care, Challenge, Persist and Succeed. Our 4 sport houses are Courage (blue), Confidence (green), Pride (red) and Spirit (yellow).
Class 5Q enjoys weekly Mathematics groups where we play games, Art sessions where we are learning to draw landscapes and perspective drawing, and all sports.
5Q students are very excited about the topic of Gold. We have already classified many rocks from Australia including Quartz and are looking forward to hearing from you soon. Please share with us what you have learnt about Bushrangers. We are really interested in that topic too !
Bye for now !
From 5Q – the Golden Experts.
May 20th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Hi Penrith bloggers!
We are class 6S at Caddies Creek P.S and there are 31 of the best looking students in our class. Our teacher is the best, curly and forgetful teacher, Ms Steward.
Our school participates in many PSSA sports including Netball, Soccer and Oz Tag. We also have members of the choral concert group in 6S. This group performs at the Opera House.
We are feeling very excited and happy about doing our research with such a wonderful school.
Looking forward to blogging with you.
From the 6Sful Gold Miners.
May 21st, 2008 at 5:01 pm
Hello Caddies Creek PS!
We are students from 5E at Penrith Public School. Going west, Penrith is halfway between Sydney city and Katoomba in the Blue Mountains.
Our teacher is Mr Emmingham, but we call him “Mr E”. Our teacher librarian is Mr McLean.
This school has a new assembly hall with automatic shutter doors, and a COLA (Covered Outside Learning Area). We have a large playground, play equipment, three shadecloth shelters, and a grassy field we always call “across the road”.
We have 404 students in our school. Our uniform is blue, white and red: the colours of the Australian flag. Our shirt is a polo shirt and we are allowed to wear it untucked. What colour is Caddies Creek’s uniform?
Our four core vales are “Learning”, “Cooperation”, “Respect” and “Environment”. You might enjoy looking at our school website. We have lots of updates to do because some things about our school have changed recently.
We are researching bushrangers in the library. This afternoon, we finished our PMI charts (for “positive”, “negative” and “interesting” facts) about law on the Australian goldfields. We will post our results in the next library lesson.
Penrith goes forward with pride!
Best wishes from 5E,
Penrith PS.
May 29th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Hello to Caddies Creek PS,
We are the students of 6W at Penrith Public School. Our teacher is usually Mr Ward. He is Acting Principal at the moment, so we have Mr Thoms working with us and our teacher librarian is Mr McLean.
Our school has many opportunities for students to learn. and to encourage our unique qualities, such as Pedlars’ Fair (today!), book fairs, mufti days, reading picnics and the talent quest.
We have good play equipment, the passive playground, an oval across the road, Rainbow Cottage (for ESL students and people needing extra help with reading). There is also an art room for drawing still life and painting with oil paints.
Our teachers are very friendly. We have K-6 assembly every fortnight and 3-6 singing assemblies in between.
Today we finished writing in our PMI charts about bushrangers and the Australian goldfields. We are tired from the Pedlars’ Fair today.
Penrith always goes forward with pride!
From 6W,
Penrith PS.
May 30th, 2008 at 9:30 am
Welcome Class 5E and Class 6W bloggers from Penrith PS. How wonderful to have you joining us in the Gold Quest blog!
The students and teachers at Caddies Creek PS enjoyed reading your informative introductions and are looking forward to sharing their research findings about the Australian Gold Rush.
Happy blogging!
Mrs Scheffers
Teacher Librarian @ CCPS
May 30th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Hi Penrith PS
We are classes 5R and 5O from Caddies Creek PS. We are posting our introductions together as we are a little bit behind schedule.
There are 28 students in 5R and Mr Roberts is our very sporty, fit, talented and funny teacher. Our class enjoys playing sport, art and telling jokes.
Class 5O’s teacher is Miss O’Connor, who is always happy and has a great personality. There are 30 students in our class and we enjoy English, art and sport.
We are feeling excited and confident about our gold research. We look forward to learning about the Australian bushrangers from the Penrith students.
Blog with you again soon,
from the 5R Rich Rangers and the 5O Outstanding Gold Miners
May 30th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Hi Penrith Public.
I’m Brittany from class 5Q. I’m really looking forward to your research about bushrangers. Bushrangers are an exciting topic to learn about. Have fun researching about bushrangers. Hope you can reply back.
From Brittany in 5Q @ CCPS
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Hello Caddies Creek students,
We are class 5P at Penrith Public School. Our teacher is Mrs Phillips and our teacher librarian is Mr McLean.
There are about 407 students at our school. Our school’s uniform is red, white and blue and has the school emblem on the shirt.
We have a large oval, which is really a rectangle, across the road. Students at our school play many sports. We also have a Passive Playground, for quiet activities like drawing on chalboards and playing with toys.
Our library is full of interesting books and displays. Rainbow Cottage is for the students who come from other countries to learn English. Last year we turned an old storage room into an art room, where we can paint landscapes, do wire or clay sculptures and make mobiles.
We have started learning about bushrangers. When we started researching we didn’t know very much about them, except that they were “outlaws” (a word which reminds us they were “outside the law”), and that many bushrangers took advantage of the people who were finding gold on the Australian goldfields.
We hope to be able to tell you more about bushrangers in the next few weeks.
From 5P at Penrith PS.
June 3rd, 2008 at 6:23 pm
G’day Caddies Creek PS,
We are class 6B at Penrith Public School. Our teacher is Mrs Bussey. Our teacher librarian is Mr McLean.
This school’s main building turned 90 years old last year. Our new assembly hall is only about three years old. We are a very multicultural school. Rainbow Cottage is for students who come from other countries and are learning to speak English. Our library is a portable building.
This school is famous for its reading picnics. We also have special days like Pedlars’ Fair and Privilege Day.
This term we are learning about bushrangers. Some of the bushrangers were very polite, and others took only what they needed to survive. Some bushrangers were treated badly by the police of the day. Other bushrangers stole gold, money and cattle, and killed people.
We are playing the Goldrush simulation game every week. A few days ago, our Assistant Principal pretended to be a bushranger and he stole all our money. (Mrs Bussey did warn us there were bushrangers in the area, and we should bank our money.) When two boys hid their money, the bushranger returned and took all their gold as well!
From 6B at Penrith PS.
June 4th, 2008 at 11:10 am
Hi everyone
I’m Hayden from 5/6L at CCPS.
Did you know? Gold and copper were the first metals to be discovered by man, around 5000BC.
I hope that is valuable information. I look forward to learning more about bushrangers.
Sincerley,
Hayden
June 4th, 2008 at 11:20 am
Hello Penrith P.S
My name is Gabriel and I am a student in 5/6L here at Caddies Creek.
I have got some interesting information to tell you. I have found that a bushranger named Matt Gabbit was the worst bushranger of all. He soon became the leader of a gang but they ran out of food. So Matt arranged for them to be killed and eaten. After he had eaten all of his gang, he gave himself up. Rumour has it that they found a half eaten arm in his pocket.
Well, I hope you’ve learnt something.
Happy blogging!
June 4th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Hey Penrith bloggers
We are looking forward to you sending us information about the bushrangers.
We would also like to share some of our information with you.
When we were researching about gold we found out that there once was a gold nugget called “The Welcome Stranger “. The nugget weighed 2316 ounces (about 72 kg) and at the time of discovery was the largest known gold nugget in the world, measuring 60 by 45 by 19 centimetres.
From The Gold Diggers @CCPS
June 4th, 2008 at 11:39 am
Hi Penrith P.S
My name is Megan and I’m in Mr Lehner’s class, 56/L at Caddies Creek PS. I’m having SO much fun in the gold unit we are doing and I hope you are having fun in your bushranger unit as well.
I saw a good website on bushrangers if you havn’t seen this website I think it is a really good one: http://www.cap.nsw.edu.au/bb_site_intro/stage2_Modules/bushrangers/bushrangers.htm
Did you know that the chemical symbol for gold is Au and that the heaviest metal on earth is GOLD?
Hope to blog with you soon
bye
Megan
June 11th, 2008 at 10:37 am
Hi Penrith P.S
My Name is Sahil and I am in Mr Lehner’s class 5/6L at Caddies Creek P.S So far I have enjoyed doing this term’s gold unit. I have learnt alot of facts about gold and I hope you have learnt alot about bushrangers. Here are some interesting facts about the bushranger Black Caesar.
The first bushranger of the criminal type was a bolter named John “Black” Caesar. A bolter was a convict who escaped from lawful custody and ‘bolted’ into the bush. Caesar was born in the West Indies, probably Jamaica 1764. He was transported with the First Fleet in 1788 as a petty thief and pickpocket. He was also a big man who needed more food to survive than the small daily ration issued to the convicts because of the shortage of food in the Port Jackson settlement. In 1790 he stole a musket, cooking pot and some rations and bolted. Over the next few years he proved to be somewhat of a nuisance as he never ventured far.
Occasionally he was joined by other bolters and they would either steal food and clothing or live on whatever fish and game they could catch, possibly helped on occasions by local Aborigines.
I hope you enjoyed reading this information Penrith bloggers!
Bye for now
Sahil
June 12th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Hi, PPS andCCPS Bloggers
This is Mia and Adriel.
We are really enjoying researching the Australian Gold Rush. We discovered that a 12 year old indigenous boy named Jupiter Mossman made history when he came across a bright glimmer of gold in a stream in Charters Towers.
We are feeling pleased that we have been able to find lots of information on gold. We are working together well, it’s really surprising how much work we have covered on gold.
Bye Mia and Adriel (the best)
June 12th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Hello Penrith Public School,
My name is Shaamikh and my partner’s name is Fiona and we are in Mr Lehner’s class 5/6L at CCPS. So far we have enjoyed researching gold. Here are some interesting facts we have found.
We watched a DVD the other day and found out that San Fransisco increased it’s population over 10,000 because of gold. We also found out from the DVD that Edward Hargraves only found specks of gold that couldn’t be payable but Tom and Lister found 4 pounds of gold which was payable. They told Hargraves but instead of Tom and Lister getting the credit for finding the gold, Hargraves did which was very unfair, if you ask us.
Did you know James Marshall found gold in a mill race or that the population of California rose from 1500 to 15000 because of gold?
We hope you enjoyed reading our information so far!
Bye
Shaamikh and Fiona @ CCPS
June 12th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Hello PPS
This is our first time on Edublog. We have been looking at gold ields and a bit of information on Edward Hargraves.
Did you Know that John Lister and his friend William Tom really found gold but Edward Hargraves tricked them and took all the gold and all the credit and that’s notvery nice!
from William
June 12th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Hello Penrith Public School Bloggers,
Our names are Nicholas and Khawab and we are in Mr Lehner’s Class 5/6L at Caddies Creek Public school. Right now we have just finished researching on four goldfields and of those four we have to pick two of them to do more research on them. We hope you are doing well on your bushrangers research because we are very happy with our research so far and looking forward to the rest of it.
Bye for now from
Nicholas and Khawab
June 12th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Hello Penrith and Caddies Crek PS Bloggers!
This is Marlene and Megan from CCPS. We are almost finished our research about the goldfields and we are up to the last gold field Gympie.
hen we were browsing on the Internet, we came across a really interesting website about bushrangers: http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/edu/ICT/student_pages/xmas2003/kbutts/general.html
We are really enjoying our research about gold and we hope you guys are too.
Blog with you soon
Megan and Marlene.
June 12th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Hey PPS, this is Sahil & Gabriel from 5/6L in CCPS!
Gabriel and I have had a lot of fun in the gold rush.
We are going to give interesting information about gold.
Did you know that the Queen’s Birthday celebration was cancelled because of a gold find?
Did you know that a convict who found gold was whipped 300 times by a soldier?
Did you know that Edward Hargraves didn’t find gold first? It was actually his 2 companions, John Lister & William Tom
These are all the interesting facts we have for now. We hope to give you some more interesting information in our next CPT library lesson.
Happy blogging!
June 12th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Hi fellow bloggers
Did you know that bushrangers stole gold from the miners? Black Caesar was the first bushranger. Some of them stole gold to feed their families, while some just wanted to be rich. Most bushrangers were hunted down and then hanged or tortured (ouch!)
The life of a bushranger was like a death sentence. But to keep their families they would have to have self confidence, pride and courage. Being a bushranger was a big sacrifice.
So far I have enjoyed researching gold.
Hope to hear from you soon
Thadeo 5/6L @ CCPS
June 12th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Dear fellow bloggers,
Our names are Darya and Michaela. We are in class 6S at CCPS. We both love to research and learn about gold. We also love puppies, as you can see on our avatar.
Now we are going to tell you some facts that we found interesting. One of the interesting facts about gold was that $10 000 worth of gold was found in the first week of the Bathurst gold rush. We found this interesting fact on a DVD about gold.
Another interesting fact is that this man discovered gold in the Blue Monutains. He showed the government and the government said to put it away and keep quite or something bad will happened.
Hope to blog with you again,
from Darya and Michaela
June 12th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Hello Gold Researchers
We would like to share some interesting gold facts with you. Did you know many people left Victoria to search for gold in NSW? The Vicorian Government did not like this. In September 1851 there were 10,000 miners in Ballarat and 2 years later in 1853 there were 20,000 miners. Many diggers and families poured into areas to search for gold. In 1898 Charters Towers produced more than 320,000 ounces of gold .
We have found this researching fun and easy and we hope to learn some new things from Penrith PS students .
Hope to hear something soon
from Nadine and Rebecca 6S @ CCPS
June 12th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Hi PPS and CCPS students
We have been studying gold and Penrith PS students have been studing Bushrangers. Did you know that the Eureka Stockade Flag is still being used by some people?
Blog again soon
Nico and Harrison @ CCPS
June 16th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Did you know that Black Caesar was the first Australian bushranger and legend has it he was a cannibal and someone found a half eaten arm in his pocket!!!
From Georgia 56l
June 16th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Hey this is Alex and Lindsay form 6J,
This term we have been learning about gold. We have been really interested because gold
is so fabulous, just like us! We are keen to share some of our information with our felow gold bloggers.
One of our gold facts is that Edward Hargraves was the first person to start a gold rush in Bathurst, Australia. He had been looking for gold for more than 20 years.
Our second fact is that gold is used to make jewellery and also fillings for people’s teeth.
We are very happy to be learning about gold in class and in the library.
When you are ready, please reply. Happy blogging!
Alex and Lindsay.
June 18th, 2008 at 10:19 am
This gold unit is so much fun I really look forward to our CPT lessons each week and I always learn something new and exciting about gold, for example I found out that Ballarat had lots of extra facilities like dancers, laundry ladies, grog tents and boxing matches to keep the miners entertained!
see you later, Mia (the best)
June 18th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Hello fellow bushrangers!
This is Caitlin and Vidya from Caddies Creek Public School and we are in class 5Q.
We have been learning all about gold this term and here is some interesting information!
*The first person to find gold was rewarded with 300 lashes because he was a conivict.
* The miners, who fought in the Eureka Stockade, burnt their licence as a symbol to show that they were free from the Government.
* More than 80% of gold is still hidden under the Earth’s ground.
* The Queen’s Birthday was cancelled because of the Goldrush.
We are having a good time researching gold but we had trouble finding the distance between Sydney and the goldfields using an atlas.
We hope to blog with you soon; good luck with your researching.
From Caitlin and Vidya (The Miners)
June 18th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Hello PPS and CCPS bloggers,
We have discovered very interesting information about gold.
Did you know gold is the heaviest metal on earth and that it’s melting point is 1063 degrees Celsius?
Also the first person to start the Australian gold rush was Edward Hargraves and he had found four specs of gold, which was unpayable. But soon after Tom and Lister found four ounces of gold which was payable.
There were difficulties doing our research though, because we couldn’t find much information on some websites and we also had trouble with deciding what were the advantages and disadvantages of 2 goldfields.
Happy blogging
From Sean and Jacob
June 18th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Hello bloggers from CCPS and PPS,
Our names are Tiana and Ashlie from class 5Q. We have been learinng about gold. Here are some interesting facts on gold so read carefully.
(1) Lister and Tom were the first people to find gold, that could be weighed for money.
(2) There are so many ways of mining gold such as panning, cradling, digging, shifting and shaft mining.
(3) The Eureka Stockade happened in Ballarat (Victoria) in 1854. Wow that was a long time ago!
(4) The Queen’s birthday was cancelled because of the gold rush.
We are having a lot of fun researching but have had some dificulties working together, but we worked it out. Our teacher is the funniest teacher ever.
We”ll write to you again soon bloggers,
Tiana and Ashlie
June 18th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Hello Penrith P.S and Caddies Creek,
We are learning about Gold. We have learnt that the heaviest gold nugget is called the Welcome Stranger, the chemical symbol for gold is Au and currently most of Australia’s gold is from W.A.
We are very proud of our work and want to share more of it with you but we can’t because we have run out of time today.
From Thily and Mostafa.
June 19th, 2008 at 10:24 am
Hi PPS and CPPS
We are Olivia and Amy from Class 5O at CCPS. We are both very excited about our gold research and learning a little bit about the bushrangers from PPS. Just to give you a hint on what we’re doing here are some tips and some imformation.
Our task is to choose a goldfield out of Bathust, Ophir, Ballarat, Charters Towers and Gympie. We have been watching recent DVDs about gold and note taking them. The DVDs were really interesting. We have been doing some surveys about what we have been doing in the past and our difficulties with the research. Our teacher (Miss O’ Connor) and teacher librarian (Mrs Scheffers) have been encouraging us to finish and work hard on this gold research.
We have got so much to tell Caddies and Penrith but we have to go so blog with you soon and we hope you read this.
Bye for now from Amy and Olivia.
June 20th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Hello fellow bloggers
This is Damian and Dilsher and we are class 5R from CCPS. We are learning about gold this year.Did you know that a 12 year old boy was the firstf person to find gold in Charters Towers? His name has Jupiter Mossman and he was a indigenous boy. We have learned lots from Mrs Scheffers and you guys about the bushrangers.
Hope to blog later,
from Damian.
June 24th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Hello everyone!
Thanks for all your wonderful facts on gold.
We’ve had a few interruptions to our bushranger research at Penrith PS but we finally have some finished products to show you! Today, the first group of Penrith PS students completed their articles made at the great website called “Newspaper clipping generator”.
Just click on PPS bushranger bounties tab – or the hyperlink http://goldquest.edublogs.org/pps-bushranger-bounties/ – and scroll down that page. Come back often to see more articles each day.
Enjoy!
Mr McLean,
Penrith PS
July 4th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
CHARTERS TOWERS, HERE WE COME!
“Gold, gold strike it rich!!!” yells the town crier. This happened in early 1872. A friend and I wanted to get rich quickly. After much thinking and planning, we, Sir Daniel Divine and Sir Hayden Heroic, decided to go to the most recent found goldfield, Charters Towers, which is located in central Northern Queensland. The goldfield was discovered by a 12 year old Aboriginal boy, Jupiter Mossman in late 1871.
We have spent weeks and weeks planning this excursion. The distance from Sydney Town to Charters Towers is over 900 miles, about three months by foot. The chance of finding gold is very easy since we realised that this goldfield has produced about 320 000 ounces of gold in the very first year.
We will need a tent, two blankets, a billy, tea, flour, mutton, an axe and a tinderbox. Since the Eureka Stockade happened in Ballarat in 1854, we don’t need a gold licence. We will also need a cradle, panning dish, shovel, bucket and a pick, since Charters Towers has lots of ways to mine gold. We will most probably travel by horse and will also try to find work and buy the gear along the way. Our friends, who have already returned from other goldfields, have taught us how to mine.
One of the major problems in going there is the remoteness. Due to the long distance, the transport and supplies will have huge costs that we fear we can’t pay for. Also, we fear that bushrangers or other miners who will steal our loot. Another disadvantage is that we don’t know how to separate other metals from our rich metal substance, since we don’t have the technology to do so. The alluvial goldfields sometimes dry up quite quickly due to the frequent weather changes. However, most of our friends are going to either Bathurst or Ballarat.
We have little money but we will worry about that when we get there. But we have each other for company and will work from dawn to dusk and dusk to dawn until we strike it rich. Yee-haa!
Proudly writen by Daniel and Hayden 5/6L CCPS