Sapphire, Australia Travel Blogs

Big Bessie Fossicking Field

A travel blog entry by jimandelle

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Out digging holes supposedly to find pretty stones!! Well we ended up based at Sapphire, the Top Tourist Park at the Willows Gem Fields was a joke! false advertising and not enough room to swing a cat. So we came to the Blue Gem at Sapphire where ...

Grab a booty in Sapphire!

A travel blog entry by serenitynow

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... also told us not to visit all the usual haunts, so we didn’t! George is one of the real characters out here in Sapphire, having intending to stay here only two weeks but has stayed around two years so far. We would hate to be here in ...

Rocks and Boulders

A travel blog entry by travln

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Today we packed up - we had a late start and then spent some time talking to a guy who is about to go around Australia with his twin 8yr old sons. His wife died of cancer three years ago (due to using fertility treatment to have the two boys - very ...

Off to Longreach

A travel blog entry by rubka

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4

... having taken it all up. After travelling 600km we were ready to get out of the car. Luckily, we found the Sapphire Caravan Park - a little gem in the middle of the gem fields (pardon the pun). Friendly service, personalised knick knacks around the ...

Fossicking

A travel blog entry by heyse

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... for some breadcrumbs. On the second day we went over to a place called Willow's gemfields for the real experience. Similar to Sapphire and Rubyvale, the town looked even more like a ghost town with ramshackle sheds where people have been digging up their ...

Gem Fossiking in Central Queensland

A travel blog entry by kellyboy

We left Home at Munruben and travelled north to Rockhampton and then on and out along the Central Highway to Emerald and then on to ...

Gem fossicking

A travel blog entry by adriananddenise

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We stayed overnight in a free camp and fossicked the next day, finding several sapphires and zircons. Most are worth cutting into various forms so we'll send them to Thailand who cut them for peanuts. It was a good experience but I don't think the ...

Fossicking

A travel blog entry by travln

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Today we went to a fossicking park in Sapphire. There are a few of them around the area. You pay for a bucket of dirt and they show you how to "process" it. You tip some into a sieve and shake it to remove a lot of ...

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Big Bessie Fossicking Field

Grab a booty in Sapphire!

Rocks and Boulders

Off to Longreach

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Gem Fossiking in Central Queensland

Gem fossicking

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