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Shotover River
Cleggie  
Posted : Tuesday, 6 November 2012 8:25:12 PM(UTC)
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Hi folks,

I put together a short slide show of my trip to the Oxenbridge Tunnel on the Shotover river. My brother and I spent about 7 hours over two days running our sluices and fighting off sandflies. The second day it had rained over night and was still raining in the morning. We were surprised at how quickly the river came up and it was still rising while we ran our sluices. It finally got the better of us and we called it quits, but we did find some color.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsrLt2SbfGk

The rubber riffle matting works great and leaves you with very little excess gravels and sands in your clean out, just black sands and GOLD!
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