January 15, 2012

We've had a busy week!
Here are our good friends Chris and Mike from Valley Center, CA. They came all the way up to Bullhead City to spent the weekend with us. You will remember them from previous posts, we spent a month with them in January last year. We met them our first year travelling - 2005/06 - and became instant friends. Our winter just wouldn't be the same if we didn't get a chance to spend some time with them!

Yesterday we drove out to Silver Creek to visit an old gold mine. "The Homestake Gold Mining Co." We were welcomed by two enthusiastiac miners who explained the process and gave us a tour of the mine - inside and out!! This picture on the right is one of their three rock crushers.

Here are pictures of the two miners. The man on the left explained to us their mining process and how the machines all worked. The man on the right gave us a tour of the mine. He's holding a gold pan and if you look closely at the picture below you will see gold.

Here is the entrance to the mine. It's set up pretty good with lights all the way and fresh air being pumped in. Much better mining conditions that there was 100 years ago!!

Here we go into the mine - into the big hole!!