prospecting trips / tagalongs

thanks Al...

however if you read the sentence I wrote following my quoted comment then yours was not necessary as I qualified mine quite clearly I believe

Looks like we'll have to agree to disagree.

Willie from Epping is probably the best one to advise you on these tours.

thanks Uncle

exactly the sort of positive feed back I was looking for

not enough gold here for you lot try Queensland leave WA gold to WA

bungarra if you like to drop me a email i might be able to help you with a couple of places to try your luck here in the pibara

thanks oldgold...how do I find your contact details?...not in any list that I seem to be able to find

email tastewart@westnet.com.au

Damn!! I wasn't going to take much anyway.........

when are you contemplating heading to Vic Kiwi? We will be there for about a month before WA Starting about 22nd next month.

thanks Willie...

with the benefit of hindsight it looks like my one throw away comment meant half with tongue in cheek could have been left unsaid....words dont always read to others as they appear to the author at times ...lol...( but the two tag alongs I have observed were a circis)

anyway your comments re your experiences are very appreciated and I have since followed up with a phone call to Mark and was very happy with our conversation

may see you on one of these this year providing I can get someone to farmsit the property again

bungarra

Ahhh Young Willie......very veiled words there....LOL


Bungarra

Your Rig Pic.......Are there trees closeby with metal plaques on them? I seem to recognise the area :-)



Cheers

Hi Willem

yes you probably do recognise the place....Rudall River NP..."jarrah" pool for want of trying to spell the whole name......the plaque you refer to is just to the right of the picture

been there several times over the years, first about 18 years ago before it became as well visited as it is now

(I re read this response before I posted it to make sure i didnt start something again..........LOL)

regards

bungarra

Hi David

Appreciate your comment on my post....as I said before it was half a throw away comment and half because of a couple of examples I had seen when we were in the same area.....hence my wariness..... I am a little surprised at the reaction by some members :)......clearly more has been read into my comment by some members than was ever expected !

I said what I said because in one instance a tour leader was a little bushed and after passing us and backtracking twice looking for some landmarks he eventually stopped me on the 3rd time and asked me where to find this particular landmark....not a problem with that at all except what he said over the UHF to his party after wards was that he had stopped to advise me of something! (I was left wondering what else he was bluffing them about during the tour) ......the other instance was simply a very noisy group that left some rubbish..... clearly not a representative sample of..... nor did I state it was

I am well aware of the professional approach that the majority of people on this site (tour operators and ordinary people like us) take.

enough said on the subject...some responses are out of proportion to the post

Regards

Bungarra

Fair enough.

Some people including tour operators behave strangely sometimes. I've taken the odd wrong term in my time. In particular I remember doing it on the Cape where I lived for about 10 years, but I hadn't been back for a while, preferring to run tours in the desert regions. Anyway my guests had a chuckle that I was momentarily geographically challenged.

wrong term?

should be wrong turn...will master the keyboard one day!

Appreciate you recommendation of tagalongs. As for overpriced well each to his own, but if you put yourself in the operator's seat then do the math, you may conclude differently.

Hi David. There are different types of tours, yours is different to
the one spoke about above. I am just judging my opinion on those, not remote travel ones. Where you need to be the Doctor,
Mechanic have contact with help if needed.
Cheers Brian