Doctors Rocks is both a geographical feature and a district on the north-west coast of Tasmania between Somerset and Wynyard.
The geographical feature is a basalt outcrop on the beachfront, behind which an escarpment rises to the north west coast plateaux. The terrain forced early road builders to construct a narrow roadway behind the rocks that was the scene of many serious accidents before modern vehicular traffic forced major earth moving and resisting of the main road further away from the rocks.
At low tide on any given day, you will almost always spot a few people fossicking in the rock-pools at Doctors Rocks, just east of Wynyard township.
There is reputedly a gold reef somewhere offshore and the rocky coastline was once a large river entrance. Whatever the reason, there is gold in tharm thar rockpools, though typically small flecks.
The process is the same as you'll see when people pan for gold in rivers.... shovel some rocks and water, swoosh, look, swoosh again, filter out the smaller rocks, look over your shoulder suspiciously... and sometimes...