Today we did some fossicking for gems. We got a bucket of dirt (which hopefully contained gems), a bucket of water and 4 sieves. We started our first scoop of dirt then washed the pile of dirt in the sieve. We were told that if you lift up the sieve towards the sun you would see bright, transparent red things that were Garnets. So we lifted up our sieves and saw heaps of little red lights. So we started picking up all the Garnets and putting them into a separate can. Most of the Garnets were little but we got some larger ones. We kept going for 2 hours until our little dirt bucket was empty. We got heaps of gems in the end including a few Quartz and Mica that we threw in. We then took our gems to a sorter who picked 4 gems to turn in to earrings back home. The rest we put in a jar together.
We went for a walk in the afternoon and saw a beautiful Zebra Finch (a beautiful bird). Then we lit a fire again to sit around later.
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