Another 3 hours at city beach before work

Before it got hot and beachies start asking questions and wasting my time i hit the beach as hard as i can :-)

The results are speak for themself:

 34$ total , Silver pendant on silver chain and heavy silver earring from melted silver,

Pendant:

And the best finds are 2 rings :

 9Ct with 4 real diamonds, about 1.5 grams and 14CT mans band about 4 grams
My time run out due my shift work from 2:30 :-( gonna go tomorrow with sun rise again :-)

Waiheke Tuesday Trip 11/12/2012

Being a shift worker has it own advantages - for example having a half day in the morning to do what ever i like before starting at 3pm

Thanks to Fullers NZ, operating Ferry trips to Waiheke every hour, it was eay for me to get there and come back

Here is a Short Video with my narration (sorry for low volume as camera is in water prof case):

And here are pictures of the finds (ring on the right is copper): 

The Best finds close up:
5 gram Pendant
7,4 gram Gold ring
Silver shilling and 925 wedding band

I can not read marking on pendant and ring, but if those are only 9 CT - still good finds ! (but comparing to my other 9ct items, these look more like 585 14ct)

Thanks for stopping by!

The Great "CUT" of Waiheke Island

Andrew and I had a long planned Waiheke Trip since August.

All went well :weather and tides  gave us an absolutely Amazing time at the Beach on Saturday. 

I didnt have a chance to do any water detecting as we got following upon arrival to main beach :

Fist 5 targets we all VERY VERY deep on the Clay level of beach, silver 6th pence and some pennies and zero light stuff on top.

the structure of the sand in the cut was following: 

Top : one scoop of light sand  5 sm

Middle : Black sand with rocks - about 20 sm

Bottom of GREEN Clay hard as rock with al targets laying on it under black sand level.

As you can see on the above picture the tide was really close and we had just about 2 hours before water covered the CUT , so we had to return in the evening (9am/9pm tides are awesome)

With absolutely no rubbish targets we hold our hopes for gold, but neither Andrew or Me got any :-(

My lot is about 100 Coins all up with 7 Silvers +1 silver Ring (but where was gold?! )

Before cleaning:

The lot after cleaning :

You can see a number of Predecimal coins there , but some are just over 1946 (Andrew got Lucky and got Hal Crown 1933)

Mine are just a bit older: 

The Ring:

The Brass/copper Pin: 

And the Australian Half Penny for My HP Reward (as a start of coin rewards for Australian coins) :

Grant, Where is all the 800 Gold Items you were talking about!?????

At least i got THAT MUCH just in 4 hours :-)

One year Wrap Up part 1 : Silver coins

Auckland is really really hunted out and most of old parks and other detectable areas are reinstated.
So it is really hard to find a spot that has never been detected or can have some leftovers...

but anyway, here is my lot, the total of 55 silver coins (so miserable to compare with South Island guys who get up to 30 silvers in one day):

I still do not have Half Crown :-( but hopefully will find soon

My Favorite coin of all is Indian Half Rupee 1936 that was found at Mission Bay
I also have 2 Sixpence 1944 that are still shiny as they were just minted - absolutely pristine condition
My last silver coin for a year was munted 1917 Canadian 10 cents

Next part will be Silver Junk and silver Rings :-)

RIP Garret Pro Pointer

Just a lesson for everyone, i think.
Try not to get it wet, spend some time and even replace and seal the button
Regardless that it is 100% must have product - the design of the button is Crap.
so here are the picture of my broken one (i snapped switch on button as well) but the issue is that it is completely wet and partially corroded inside. The coil part is glued so can not take it out.

Will try out Probe 25 and also will be looking to buy Underwater Vibra Probe for next year

Excal goes Deep Part 3 : River/Mud/Beach and a Broken Scoop

Heya all ,

Lets Start from "the End" - when i almost finished for the weekend... and my Scoop Handle snapped... Again... :-(

No, it is not a bad wood and no it is not small pipe on the scoop - it is MUD and me trying to work fast in the water and putting too much pressure on the handle. I am tall and have to have long handle, hence higher chance to snap it :-(. Next Step - To find 30-31mm Stainless steel Pipe to make handle

But lets get to the good part ! i didnt realize that i found silvers, till i cleaned up mud coin blobs :-)
and that is where i found Shilling & 2 sixpence, where one is 1887 Young Head Queen Victoria! - really happy with that one :-)

Another 2 coins i am very interested in are some copper , 3pence size, that i can not read at all , so i used pencil and paper to get a slip of them ,PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU KNOW WHAT THEY ARE , Please

As you can see one side has Britannia and another just wording...that possibly read Victoria.... PLEASE HELP!

And here is the best of the best for the weekend, that made me and all my friends say :"WOW!!" :

I am gonna test Diamonds tomorrow :-) lets hope they are real.
The Ring was Deep and has years of Mud Patina on it (not as bad as those from Rarotonga- maybe X years in mud, not like XX years in reef)

And all finds together with couple of bullets and 2 other Junk rings i found over the weekend:

Thanks for stopping By, have a nice day and do not forget to invite me for a friendly hunt :-)

Excalibur Going Deep part 2 : Mission Bay

Took half Day off yesterday to get to 0.3 tide and spent 3 hours at Mission bay.
I went almost to buoys with Chest deep water (at a low tide, that means with full tide the depth is about 4.5 meters there)

Found total 15 coins, crap pendant, HUGE diver's weight ...
But the Best find of the day is my only second Silver Florin :

It was a very good day, learned beach a bit more...
But the biggest problem there - Clay and Mud, I almost broke my second Scoop handle, as it is a rally REALLY tough work to dig for stuff there :-( every target is like 5 minutes plus .

I've also met Ray and he showed me couple of his Awesome finds from the past...
... Some really cool finds... :-) was really happy and please that Ray shared those with me....