goldrush

This is Porcuopine Lake, just a block away from the manse in which I live. Yesterday morning I walked by here and there were loons swimming on the lake, but this apppeared in the afternoon. It is a drill. They are looking for gold in the cores that they bring up. They seem to be looking for gold everywhere, especially since late winter when drilling rigs turned up all over the city, in parking lots, in ball diamonds and now in the lake. As the value of gold rises so does the exploration. The hills on the other side of the lake are man-made from the waste that came out of the Dome open pit. But then gold is the only reason that most people even live here.