Clasping the metal detector tightly, I placed it on the red earth and paced around.
With the sun beating down, I peered at the scorched dusty ground.
Then, as the metal detector beeped loudly, my eyes lit up.
Stooping down excitedly, I dusted away the earth. A shiny, lustrous gold nugget twinkled in the sunshine.
‘Got one!’ I cheered to my husband Levi, 30.
I’d struck gold!
Coming from Fremantle, WA, my grandpa Max, had been a miner.
When I got together with Levi in 2017, we discovered that his grandad Don had