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About mid morning, we drove past Jimmy the Rock Doctor's house and if it was a private house with no advertising, we would not stop. In middle of his front lawn was a sign "The Rock Doctor" and above his shed was another sign "Hidden Valley Rock Museum", so we went in. bad mistake.....
There was a sign on the front door 'walk around the back I am in my shed working', so we did. We walked around the back and here was Jimmy, an elderly gent, bare feet, long beard and working amongst the rock dust. Longy who owes Rockalong Stoneworks did say that Jimmy enjoyed a chat. Two hours later and that is no lie, we left his residence. BUT, not before he showed us his rock collections and told us that he would take us on an Amethyst fossicking trip (Tuesday or Wednesday depending upon when he could fit us in, he would ring us tonight and tell us what was happening.) After leaving Jimmy we drove out to the WA/NT border looking for a fossicking site from a guy on the internet, we couldn't find it, so we headed back to camp, but first, we had to be searched at the Quarantine station. No dramas.
Back in downtown Kununurra we visited the Coles supermarket and while I visited the souvenir shop, Marg visited Nina's Diamonds, she spotted something nice, but the price killed it, $5,000 for a small pink Argyle diamond, at least it costs nothing to look.
It is so hot that we are drained by mid afternoon, lucky that our site at camp is under the trees. We spent an enjoyable afternoon, sitting outside in the shade and around dinner time, Jimmy rang, we agreed to picvk him up from his house at 6am. Bloody 6am. So a quiet, early night.

Tomorrow, we are going Amethyst hunting with Jimmy.

It was a very warm night, had the Air Cond on all night. Slept well. This is a pattern.

Set the alarm for 5am, it was still dark. Got up and we were out the front of Jimmy's house at 5:50am and Jimmy was ready. A casual drive of 116kms, we headed off along the highway into NT and turned right into Duncan Road at 6:30am (thanks Harry) and proceeded for 44.6kms and then turned left into the Waterloo Station 'driveway' and went a further 10kms, past their quarantine yards and through numerous gates. By the way, Jimmy rang the manager last night to get his permission for us to go there. We finally arrived at the area that he wants to investigate, because he wasn't visited this area since this year's wet. We are walking around and following Jimmy like a lost dog, he is showing us what to look for in rock formations and there is heaps of amethyst around BUT the majority has been bleached by the sun and is white. Jimmy says that is crap, Marg and I like it and are placing bits in our buckets, so our buckets are full and Jimmy has about 3 pieces, he is so fussy. SO, back to the mighty Navara to empty our buckets and then Jimmy wants move about 100 meters further down the dry creek bed. So we do.

By this stage it is getting quite warm, so we park under a tree and set up Marg's chair up, as she is playing with the rocks which we have just found, while Jimmy and I have a scratch around the new location. Jimmy calls me over to a bit of rock jutting out of the creekbed and proceeded to give me instructions on how to dig it out, without breaking it into a million pieces. As we are unearthing this rock, Jimmy is getting extraordinarily excited, after at least 30 minutes of painstakingly digging around the rock, by me and with Jimmy supervisoring beautifully, we uncovered a magnificent chunk of amethyst, so large and good quality that we allowed Jimmy to take what he wanted and we keep the rest, which included the big chunks seen in the photos. After this find, we were so excited and happy with what we found, that we called it a day and headed back to Kununurra.

We left the area at 9:38am (thanks Harry) and retraced our tracks back to camp, BUT at 8.9kms from the Victoria hwy at the Matilda creek crossing, we came across a 4WD with trailer on the crossing missing its rear left wheel. The nuts of the rear left wheel had all fallen off together and consequently, his wheel had fallen over, he had found the nuts and was having big trouble raising his 4B high enough to get his whell on, so with our help we spent 35 minutes and he was back on his way. We still cannot believe how all the wheelnuts can fall off at the same time, but whatever happened, we got him going again.
At the WA/NT border quarantine, while I was breathanalysed and the car checked, Jimmy who knows all the staff including the police that were in attendance, was having a quiet chat. As there were no other cars there, we actually stayed longer than we had too and chatted to the officials.
Back at Jimmy's place, we divved up the spoils of the day, Jimmy was very happy with what he got and so were we. We thanked Jimmy for a magic day and headed back to camp, and spent the afternoon, looking at and washing our amethyst and other rocks that we found. Another very quiet night and early to bed.

Tomorrow, not much.

We went over to Jimmys, Marg wanted him to name some of the rocks that we have collected on this trip and wanted to give him some of our agate. He told us what we asked and he was very grateful for the agate that Marg offered him.
We finally left Jimmys and spent the rest of the afternoon, playing with our rocks and relaxing.