Friday, July 3, 2009

154) Day Five: Oh the hilarity of it all


THIS was the day where we discovered the opal beds.

The reason the word "sketchy" was invented.

To sum up this experience for you, I'll share a bit of a journal entry from that day:

"We are in the boondocks of Northern Canada...in five fifteen-passenger vans...and we just asked a kid with blood-stained hands for directions so we can go hunt for opals."

We did 2 U-turns to reach the middle of nowhere. It was raining. The bloody-hands kid had the words "Beware of Cat" spray-painted on the door of his trailer.

Upon arriving in the mosquito-infested swampy forest, we found no opals. Had some tuna. Escaped.

Later, we toured a sawmill.



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