The following weekend, she returned. After spending a while panning for gold on our beach, she surprised us by showing us the gold she'd found. They were very tiny bits of gold, but gold nonetheless. Chris and her husband travel all over, panning for gold as a hobby. She explained that gold can be found almost everywhere there is (or was) water, having been distributed by glacial movement during the Ice Age.

Just when you think you have heard it all, huh!