Wednesday 26 February 2014

Excalibur 2 10 Inch coil cover found :-)

Today i had a quick walk at Mission bay and when i was at water edge - saw a coil cover floating in the surf :-)


I know YOU guys lurking on my blog, but never post or txt or call me,

Now you have to :-) ,so whoever lost it there, please call me 0272766257 and i can return to you so you do not damage your coil and no need to buy new one.

By the way - use a simple cable tire strap to prevent the loss of coil cover in the water.

Regards


Monday 24 February 2014

Someone lost Full Family at the beach...

As i had morning off today, decided to do wet sand with CT3030.
Really wanted to find ring, as Dale is now leading with 8 gold for the year, while i am sitting on 7.
However my rings effort was fruitless :-(

After 2 hours and no good targets in "main drop area" i shifted a bit up to high tide mark.
that is where i scored this nice Silver/Leather Michael Hill necklace with 4 charms  :


Oh yes.. and here is a Family :



Also, please enjoy my favorite photo from Bus trip to the beach:


Have fun and happy hunting ;-)

Friday 21 February 2014

Battling the waves,yields silver :-)

As all the easy detecting spots been checked after last weekend, nothing left besides hard yaka of water detecting.

When Dale and i arrived to the beach, waves were smashing the shore, pointing that there should be some washouts below the tide mark.

I was very hesitating about going into the waves, lets say i even chickened out , but Dale was a bit braver so we went.

We couldn't spend more than 2 hours as it was VERY exhausting, but result was ok = Great physical exercise and a Silver each :-)

My results are below :



Good luck all!

Sunday 16 February 2014

White's Dual Field Pi strikes gold again :-)

Most of New Zealanders headed off to the beach over this weekend as summer is coming and going this year. By me observation it is only 3d sunny&warm weekend this summer, which actually ends in 2 weeks time.

And unfortunately the low tide is mid day, so the whole of drop zone is below low tide mark ... So what is the solution ? - Put wetsuite , weight belt and grab my new favorite - White's Dual Field Pi

So, what is the result ? -  Check it out below   :


And the best of it :


The gold ring is 18 CT. 5.72 grab :-)
Earring is 925 silver an pendant that was attached to above chain seems to be junk.

This is my gold number 7 for the year ;-)

Have fun all!

Sunday 9 February 2014

Garmin forerunner 910xt & Double gold !

Heya guys!

Finally managed to score some nice pieces after one week of gold drought .
Check out this cool clip from last night as well :



And here is a pic of all best finds :



Good luck and & happy hunting! :-)

Saturday 8 February 2014

Metal Detecting King Tides week

I've decided that i will make one big post for the whole week of king tides.

The First hunt was in the water  during low tide on Saturday 1St of Feb  and produced ok pile with a potential of coming back :



Couple of predec, including silver 3d. Plus junky stainless steel ring.

Sunday the 2nd FEB:


All finds on the left were from Dry sand on one of city beaches as crowds were just insane, so Dale and i decided to clean out at least one of the beaches before morning treasure hunters start roaming the sands..
* got a silver pendant on junk chain and junk ring

So all water finds are from the same beach as on 1st , but this time with a bit more nice pieces. 5 rings total, but no gold :-(  3 silver rings  2 junk. Very nice big religious pendant and three 3Ds 


Monday the 3d i finished work right at the low tide, so headed to near by beach to do an upcoming tide.:



The result was pretty poor with only 3$ and one Silver ring (the pendant is junk aluminum)


Tuesday the 4th gave me an extra hour after work as tide shifted, so i decided to rush into water.
The result was OK, with a big  stainless steel ring and some coins, but still no Yellow :-(




5th Wednesday night was a night at Long Bay at wet sand, that produced just a junk Copper ring and some coins not worth posting picture of :-(
Dale kindly offered to host us for the night so we could catch double tide on Waitangi day 6th Feb.
The plan was to get 7 am low tide, then go fishing and then do another 7 pm tide. But weather told us : "screw your plans" and wind started to pick up right from early morning. That didnt stop us going into water in a semi calm bay that produced  some finds and well worth coming back :



 * The Rings are silver + Junk and an interesting gold plated brass kiwi brooch .

As weather was a bit crap with high wind, but sunny, we decided to do the whole of Kohi beach. wich was obviously detected through the week.But most importantly someone decided to prank other treasure hunters and scattered lots and lots of 1&2 cent pieces all over the beach.


* The best find for me was a set of nice silver earrings that were claimed by GF right away :-)
With very high winds & waves we had a very limited choice of where to go detecting in the water, so we decided to try Kohi. Unfortunately it didnt go that well and we had to call it quits within 1st hour .
my best find was a gold plated ring :


With absolutely crap weather on Friday, we all took rest.
So, here is a better picture of 6 day hunt finds :



* Total of 13 Rings, 5 silver.
* 2 silver pendants and a set of silver earrings
* four 3Ds

But no gold... :-( better luck next time.

Have fun and see you all at the beach!