Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Sixes, Oregon coast

A meeting with some excentric miners. Here they are showing off their newest panning wheel, the gold will end up in the center of this wheel, as it is very heavy. They won't bother looking for more, unless they can find at least 6 flakes in the middle..One of them was heading up to Alaska as that is where he thought you could get the most, although it is more dangerous work up there. He drove a jeep that looked like it was made of gold. Below he is showing the wheel about halfway emerged in a side stream, so that the stream takes away the other debris while this wheel is turning..

The coast was clear and some beautiful arches showed up.

Humbug Mountain is showing it's top, nice hike and great campground next to it, that allowed you to walk through a canyon to a nice beach.

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