Henry finds more gold

In the Mountain Scene this week, there's mention of Henry Geerlings again. Apparently, he's found two more nuggets in the past month or two including one at three grams and one at four grams! He's on a roll, and proving that there's gold for the taking out there...!

The frustrations of puritanical media channels...

Well, this is just a quick note to say that if anyone is trying to view the 1st and 5th video in 'Day 1' then you can't anymore. You will get the same message I'm getting - 'We're sorry this video is no longer available'.

Why? Well, I pondered that same question for a couple of hours myself until I wondered if anyone might take offence to the word 'crap' or 'hell'... And, it would seem that somebody really does have a problem with those words, which is curious because I'm from the British Isles and 'crap' is old slang for money (or gold), so... when I say crap I'm referring to gold, and when I say 'hell' I'm referring to the chain of pizza restaurants here in New Zealand... Go figure eh?!

As Oscar Wilde once said about America and Britain - 'Two nations divided by a common language'.

So anyway, I'll repost the videos as '1st video - the puritanical director's cut' and '5th video - une homage to Oscar'...

:)

Gold-folk-music to listen to along the way...

So, there I was listening to Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour - the show was called 'Money' and half way through he played a song by Nic jones from the 1980's called 'Farewell to the Gold' about the life of a gold prospector in Otago in the 1800's...!






What an awesome song... Of course I'm hoping I don't meet the same fate as the guys in the song, and Henry Geerlings and many others have found way to much gold in the area to want to 'pack up my bags and make the break clean'... But I'll certainly be sticking it on the ipod as I make my out the the first trip up the Shotover... :)

end of the first day...

Thousands and millions of tiny pieces of...

Gold takes the shortest route down-river

Flecks of gold!