Two of our fellow workampers went up to an old gold mine and got a chance to meet the caretaker. The caretaker gave them some rocks that he was fairly confident had gold in them. All you have to do is crush them and pan the crushed gravel for the gold. Jim had also met the caretaker and actually seen him crush rock and pan out the gold. We are trying to put together a mining display for the visitor center. We thought some crushed rock and maybe a little sparkle of gold in an old gold pan would look cool in the display. So Jim and Bruce, the other guy in the picture, took a post hole digger pounder and used it to crush some rock. They crushed several nice rocks and we panned them out but no gold just some flour gold that wouldn't get a bee's belly yellow.
Jim had to take a picture of the duck towards the back of the picture. The two black ducks with the white beaks are Coot. The other two we discovered are American Widgeons. We've never seen this kind of duck before. They came down for the winter. We get lots of different kinds of migrating ducks and birds and its interesting to try and figure out what they are.
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