Typing this left handed with one finger. Had right shoulder surgery yesterday, so working kinda slow and staying busy to help me ignore the pain. Morphine is a wonderful drug! Why didn't i discover it sooner???
This will be uncharacteristically short and will try to let the pics & 3 videos tell the story as best they can. Since I was getting surgery that will lay me up for several months from hard work, and I had Monday off, I decided late Sunday nite to load up and go sluicing...
Sat & Sun were washout days........as it rained most of both days. Monday was clearing, cool and I was afraid Beech Creek would be up too hig, too muddy, but luckily it was very workable. 38 degrees coming thru Buchanan.
I set up downstream, but after a while couldn't get the water flow I wanted, so I moved up by the campground.
I found a hole someone else had dug about 2 feet deep into the gravel bar on the inside bend. One sample pan showed some small colors, so I worked this spot for a number of hours doing a lot of cleanups.
The water was surprisingly clear and very cold. The day was clear and warmed up nicely by early afternoon. I did several sample pans to check for color as I cleaned up my Wolf Trap sluice, as I was getting a LOT of black sand. Very good color and even one bigger flake. Nice!
By early afternoon I was pooped out, and time to get heading home, clean up the Jeep and dry my cons in the drive way. So, despite the long drive up/back for one days sluicing, I had a great time and got some surprisingly good GA color.
Now, to get my shoulder back to 100%......
Here's the first of 3 short videos I posted on YouTube:
http://youtu.be/nOFzAPC_PlE
Hope you get out soon and have your own "Gold Adventure", even if it's only for a few hours on the creek!
God bless,
Randy "C-17A"
www.goldadventures.biz
