It was a cooler night, I used my sleepingbag all night. I awoke at 6:30am and got up and checked my fossicking jeans that I tried to dry overnight but they were still damp, so I put them in the camp's drier, 30 minutes later they were dry and beautifully warm to put on. Marg awoke at 7am and laid in bed watching Weekend Sunrise. As we didn't have to pick up The Captain until 9am, we weren't in any hurry. We had brekky and left camp at 8:50am, drove the 2 kilometers to Captain's house. I played with Hannibal, his 6 month old German Shepherd, he was very playful and beautiful. After packing his fossicking gear in the back of the mighty Navara, we drove the 44kms to Lord Thunda's Estate, where we met and picked up Lord Thunda and headed off to Torrington. After 33kms and stopping to photograph the numerous black headed sheep with their lambs, we eventually arrived at Mystery Face carpark. We parked and with our fossicking gear in hand we started walking to Scrubby Creek.

These instructions come from Findem from Aussie Sapphire Forum:

At the car park there is a track that goes through a gate into private property. It actually goes into the site of the Scrubby Gully bismuth/wolfram mine. While interesting, I haven't found any mineral specimens on the dumps. You can also get into the head of Scrubby Gully Creek and follow it down. Once again, beyond a few quartz crystals, nothing exciting turned up. Remember that you are on private property too.
Meanwhile, back to the gate. Turn left and follow along the fence. I know this is private property but it sures beats thrashing through the bush on the Conservation Area side. After about 15-20 minutes you will come to a little creek (which might well be dry, of course). This is Scrubby Gully. Upstream (private property, of course) is the site of the Scrubby Gully alluvial tin workings. They weren't neat and tidy in those days so it is all badly eroded. Downstream (and in the Conservation Area) there are small alluvial workings along the creek and sometimes some distance away from it. Go as far down as you like (all down hill in rough granite country). There is plenty of gravel to dig but lots of other fossickers have been there before you.
Minerals to be found include topaz, tourmaline, quartz crystals (not many), beryl (some excellent crystals have turned up) and the occasion zircon and sapphire (very worn). Altogether worth a visit but preferably not in dry, summer, snakey weather.

We found a spot to fossick in and we only found very small maybe upto 5mm topaz, until just before we were leaving, we found our largest piece, so we did a few more sieves. We all packed up and compared our hauls and Captain appear to win on the day. It was a good 20 minute walk up a steady raise from the creek to the carpark, we made it with a few stops along the way.

We arrived at Scrubby Creek carpark at 10:34am and left at 3:01pm, dropped Lord Thunda off at his Estate at 3:41pm and dropped the Captain off at 4:17pm. As we were slightly buggered, we arrived at Maccas at 4:27pm and finally arrived back at camp at 4:38pm. We had dinner (Maccas) quite early, then I unpacked the mighty Navara and had a few chilled refreshers after another great day.

We would like to thank Lord Thunda for his company today and Captain Mendoza for his tagalong yesterday and leading us to Scrubby Creek today.

The joy of fossicking, last time Captain and Lord Thunda were at Scrubby Creek, they found some large blue topaz, that didn't happen today, unfortunately, but Marg and I still enjoyed it immensely and the company was great and the scenery was magnificent.
Getting out in the bush is just magic.

Dinner was maccas and Yumma. Marg was ready for bed at 7pm, but she managed to stay awake until 8:00pm, I got my 2nd wind and decided to update our website.

Tomorrow,if we haven't died, it will be a very easy day, with packing up camp slowly for our departure on Monday.