Field Trip To Britannia Creek 2010Our Rockhounds love food! The field trip to Britannia Creek in search of quartz crystals and citrine was again a very successful day with over 25 members attending. Majority of us all...
Trying Our Luck In NSWFollowing a busy few years, we managed to get away for the month of October 09 to have some well earned R & R. Of course there would be “some” fossicking done. Our first stop was Oberon...
Summer Fossicking At Phillip IslandThere's nothing quite like the sea breeze and an interesting beach to get the fossicking juices flowing...except finding something to take home too! I recently spent my summer holidays at Phillip...
Valencia Creek Field Trip 2008On the Queens birthday long weekend 2008, Morwell club hosted a field trip to Valencia creek for some fossicking by all who were welcome to join. Essendon club was well represented on the weekend...
Field Trip To Britannia Creek 2007Several members of the Essendon Gem & Lapidary Club took part in a most enjoyable field trip to Brittania Creek, some 7kms out of Launching Place, on Sunday 15th April 2007. We left the...
Fossicking In Far North QueenslandCome Melbourne's winter, it was time for many "serious" gem fossickers and rockhounds to head to far north Queensland for some serious r & r in the sun, including five lucky members of the...
Stopover At The SheepyardThe Sheepyard opal field is located approximately 75km west of Lightning Ridge, NSW and forms part of a triangle of opal fields consisting of Grawin, Glengarry and Sheepyard. As part of our winter...
Sovereign Hill - Gold Rush Of The 1860sMoran and I recently had the pleasure of a weekender at Sovereign Hill in Ballarat, Victoria. Ballarat is situated on the Tourist Gold Route (also known as Victoria's 'Golden Triangle' from the...
Marion's & Suzanne's Trip To TrenthamMarion and I decided that we'd take a fossicking trip to Trentham to go looking for sapphires and anything else we could get our hands on. We started with a visit to Marion's relative's place in...
A Trip To Flinders IslandOn a rather wet and windy Friday morning (21 April 2006), eight intrepid travellers, four members of the Mordialloc club and four of the Essendon club, set up in a ten seater Cessna 404 for a 1hr...
Field Trip Report 2007-2008This year has seen the club attract quite a few new members that have been attending on a regular basis, some of them weekly, others as they can. They have all learnt and contributed no matter how...
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Gemboree 2010 - Devonport
20 May 2010Foreword: I arrived back home on 20th April, 2010, after a three delightful weeks exploring the wonders of Tasmania following a great GEMBOREE® in Devonport at Easter. Sadly, at my wife Jenny’s insistance, some of this was done on foot.…
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