tales from my misspent youth

[novice]

Cheers Wolf, I'm a verbal as anyone I guess but for the sake of others I make an effort to confine my yak (here we go) to things I have a little knowledge of.
That is not to suggest anyone here doesn't
Yeah Bruce, the bugs were shitty but it just meant we had to be smarter. You'd think that would be easy huh. Right.
I really condensed that yarn as it spanned 8 months but for a while there we were just prospecting. (specking, as the locals call it)
This was simply walking about bent over looking for shiny stuff. Most often it would be sapphire.
If we stuck at it we generally found enough to trade for a carton of beer. The search time averaged out at about three hours. At one stage it was a daily regime. Life became pretty simple but good. The search would sweat out the previous days beer and give us a mean thirst for those to come.