Originally Posted by: garrymac 
Hi Shaneo,Its a long way to come to come for a bit of colour when there is so much on your doorstep, Ive spent a lot of time west of Warwick down Thanes creek. There was some of the best bits of ground ive played in profiding there was some water around. I have carted 1000lts of water into there to run a small trommel, two trips to the Codamine river a day but it was all worth it, some nice chunky gold came out of there, and just last year a very large nugget, i cant remember how big, but i think it was in the 5kilo range. But please feel welcome to our fair country, theres plenty of spots for colour up around Queenstown---Arrow river. If you had of been coming later this month we could have shown you a lot of the Skippers area as im off up ther for 5 days,alas its not to be , but you find some good spots just 10 mins up the arrow to set your sluice up, dont get to near the track or fords as ther is alot of tracfic up and down that track, plenty of flakes in the rottern rock. Good luck and hope your trip is enjoyable
thank you, it is a long way to come but i just love my homeland. i havent done much fossicking here in australia, but you talked me into going to Warwick, thanes creek within the next few weeks.
5 kilo, wouldnt that be Awesome, lol.
Arrowtown was another place i was thinking, i do have relations in queenstown, so i may spend a couple days there.
happy hunting
Shane.