Wednesday 18 January 2012

3 hour Hunt at Kohimarama

Hi, Next trip was at low tide 9am-noon, then i had to retreat as it got extremely hot.
So a little bit of info first: Kohimarama is a sanded beach and it is hunted heavily and frequently . The beach base is actually mud and clay- heavy items supposed to sink up to that layer and stop.
So at a low tide i went to couple of "pockets" but unfortunately they were empty- no gold for me. got some coins though.

When about 10-30 i noticed a lot of people start coming to the beach taking spots on dry send- so quickly decided to shift to dry sand. There were a lot of kids and all were watching me. Sometimes it is annoying when people constantly ask if i have found something or "what are you looking for" but when kids come around and ask if "Are you looking for treasure, mister" i can not resist to make a pirate expression :D

Actually i did find a treasure when one of the kids was watching me- there was some sort of metallic dish buried in the sand with toys in . So when i dug it up and gave to the kid- he was really excited. ! ><

Anyway. It took me only 20 minutes at dry sand to pull that really nice silver ring - that i am most happy about as $$$ wise i just got 6.30$ that makes me .50 short braking even for bus fare :/
But again - it is all good as ii had a wonderful morning and a good work out (better than a jogging)


So here are my finds for the day :
* A key
* Sinker
* small bell
* beer opener
* spoon
* 6.30$ + another dead 10c piece
* 5c australia
* 5c
* another cool silver ring :D

Beer opener and spoon go into the bin though. I keep all keys and will make a big stand some time.

Ring close up with 925 stamp :D

Tomorrow is a trip to St Helliers or maybe somewhere else. haven't decided yet.

Hope you like these as well and see you soon

3 comments:

  1. Congrats on the silver Max. Nice ring. Looks like a fairly new drop as still shiny.
    Pity no more goldies but I think that is just due to too many hunting there.

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  2. Well done :) Sweet looking ring!

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  3. You sure are pulling in the silver! lol good job.

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