We had to take all our rubbish out with us and we could not find a spot to dispose of this rubbish until we reached Rolleston. We cannot understand why Qld National Parks have not worked out a better way for people to be able to dispose of their rubbish. For instance in WA they have central rubbish dump points at the last major turnoff when heading into a NP.
Our journey was from Carnarvon Gorge via Rolleston & Springsure where we had some morning tea. The scenery around Springsure was beautiful.
From there we headed to Emerald for our lunch stop and some grocery (& alcohol) shopping before making our way to Rubyvale.
Checkout this amazing site in Emerald
Rubyvale is in a well known gem fossicking area - about 43 km west of Emerald and located 16km off the highway just past the village of Sapphire. Obviously these little towns are appropriately named for the gems that can be found in the areas around them.
In Rubyvale we stopped in at the "Little House of Gems" to pick up our fossicking pack - all the implements we required, fossicking licences and camping permit. These are official licences and camping permits issued on behalf of the Qld Government.
With some brief instructions from the owner we headed off to the prescribed location of the fossicking area - only about 8km out of town at Sultana Hill in a claim called 'Reward'.
The last couple of km was very rough road and if reckon that if we got a few 'spits' of rain we would surely be here for some time as this road would quickly become mud.
There are quite a few claims in the area - with some rough shacks and camp set ups out here - but we had been given instructions on where we could fossick and how to recognise the area of a claim.
It was about 3.30pm when we arrived at the designated campsite - so we set up camp and got underway with the camp oven meal preparations.
We foraged around and found plenty of firewood at this site and soon had the camp oven cooking in the hot coals.
It was then time to settle down for drinks around the camp fire whilst we waited for dinner to cook.
We were all pretty excited about having a fire since we had not been able to have fires in the Carnarvon Gorge National Park - and we enjoyed it immensely - and we were of course so much warmer than we had been these last few nights - and did not need all the rugging up that we had been doing to keep warm.
Our camp oven dinner was scrumptious!!! And well enjoyed by us all.
It was a clear starry night and it was very pleasant sitting around a camp fire - serenaded by the not so distant bellowing of some local cattle that roam the area.
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