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	Left - working an area of salt lake and I'm onto another small patch! In my hand I'm holding a half ounce nugget dug from the ground next to my left foot. Every hole is carefully filled in and the surface flattened because one shower of rain and all my footprints and holes will disappear making it difficult for any other prospector to find the area. It is difficult to photograph the salt lake in the middle of the day because of the glare.
	Sometimes there can be hundreds of small nuggets scattered over a very large area.

Above - when it rains it can be very difficult getting back off the lake, usually the only thing you can do is wait for the water to dry up. I knew there was solid bedrock below the mud in these two places.

I get a large signal deeper this time and eventually dig out a piece of the bedrock with an ounce of gold in it.
	These were the biggest gold nuggets I found in 1999. The largest was two and a half ounces in size. I also found hundreds of smaller bits.
Below are pictures of my camp on the edge of a salt lake. Whenever it rained I collected water off my canopy to save me having to travel long distances to fetch it. Camping on the edge of a salt lake can be pretty unbearable because of the constant strong wind, hence the wind break made out of shadecloth in the bottom photo.Note the solar panel in the first photo.