Rarotonga Treasure Hunting July 2013

Good Day everybody :-)

I know that some of you are waiting impatiently for my post about last week treasure hunting trip.
This time i was smarter with my videos and processed them on the day, so everything was ready for upload upon my arrival back to NZ.

I am not going to write here about how great it was - everything is narrated in the Video, so please watch, comment, subscribe!

Here i will just post a picture of all the finds :

* over 300$ in coins
* 13 gold rings
* gold earring and pendant
* 5 silver rings
* 2 silver earrings
* 4 junk rings

Beach hunt#60 Winter at Whangaparaoa , Auckland

Andrew and i decided to have a small adventure this morning, as it is Winter here - we didn't have much expectation from a very hunted beach... especially after Big Moon weekend when every person with Metal detector went out to try own luck... Watch the video and do not forget to Subscribe to my Channel !

And here are the rings (26&27 gold for the year):

4.5 Hours today. and both Rings are in the last 30 minutes of the hunt.
There are invitations for tonight from Brett and Olly, also Possible morning Hunt tomorrow with Andrew.
We will see how i am going to feel. and maybe going to have one more outing today .

P.S. i will post an update on Camera as a separate post if i can get any photos  out of the memory card

Suit Up!

Barney Told Me:

So i Did! :

Scored Crewsaver Neoprene immersion Suit for only 80$!!!!!!!!!!!! You can not beat that!!!!


Unpacked and donned in under 2 minutes
Fire retardant Neoprene construction
Withstands the impact of a jump into
water from 4.5m
Prevents a typical wearer’s core body
temperature from dropping by more than
2C after six hours in calm water of 0-2C

Now i can spent all the time i want in the water during those cold cold nights :-)

Hunt # 58&59 - Both low tides 23/06

With the lowest tides, and a Broken scoop (4th time)
I rushed to fix it in the morning to get to Takapuna,

The first hunt was close to lunch time, where Brett already was hammering beach for an hour with a gold result... Bustard! other 2 detectorists were scattering around in uncontrolled pattern. so decided to do couple of walks parallel to the shore ankle deep in the water.

Had about an hour or so before going to work, so manged some change and a 10.5gram silver bracelet "I Love You "

The next outing was after i finished my evening shift at work .Olly picked me up 23:30 and we went to Takapuna to wader further deep in the water....
The night was amazing! it was quite, no waves, no wind. crystal clean water with fish jumping around and enormous crabs chasing our coils and light spots from the torches....
...But it was Cold... Very VERY cold... with my summer 3 mil wetsuit i got chills in first 30-45 minutes.
But it was ll worth it. Not that we found much, but be out there.. trying to empty my mind and simply enjoy water...
I got a very nice condition penny - they always look like this when they come out of clay :

We both got a ring each as well, Olly got silver i got junk :-(
But here are the rest of the finds for the day :

Thoughts of the night:
* get a 7+ mill wet suit
* Do up scoop properly with stainless steel  handle
* Swim year round in the ocean as water heals....


 I am now Open for any trips, any meetup. If you want to go out somewhere - call me /message me i am happy to come around

For my South Island friends - if you have a couch for me to sleep on and you plan a weekend detecting trip and would like me to come a long with stories and make a nice trip - feel free to invite for any type of detecting, treasure, Gold.

I hope you all have a great time! 

Hunt # 57 Storm, Hail , Good time

Today had a day off, so had Dale.

First stop was at the small city beach that was an absolute disaster - smelly, polluted, so we decided to move to another spot - mud flats next to old sailing club.

As it was first time for mud detecting for Dale- he realized pretty quickly that it is not his cup a tea :-) All wet and in mud we moved to couple of parks where we scored a silver coin each- mine 1902 UK threepence,

while Dale got 193X florin, completing his set on NZ predecimals ! Congrats! 

My notable finds from the morning were: 

* 1902 3d

* bullet

* 1.5 OZ bronze measuring  weight

* copper square ship nail

* Bronze NZ forces button 

In the evening i got a call From Andrew, wanting to go to the beach for low tide, so we visited Long Bay and Browns bay to check sand conditions - all sanded in , but that didnt stop me finding a nice silver ring before getting completely soaked :-) (it was hailing as well)

Thank you guys for taking me out - you can not imagine how helpful that is .

Here are the finds  : 

Hunt # 56 Finishing Takapuna beach

Excited after yesterday finds, Andrew and i went to finish off Takapuna beach,
No gold today, Andrew got small silver ring,
My finds are below :

Bad weather is coming... we will see what will happen with beaches :-)

Beach Hunt #55 Gold Number 25 for the year!

After a long brake from proper beach detecting i went out to Takapuna with Andrew for a 2 hour spin,
Beach is almost empty. but.. you would not believe me if i tell you that Andrew found 2 18K rings in the first hour.
Two! ahead of me!

So i put all my effort to find at least one for myself! And i did!

7.34 gram 18k Ring with inscription in Latin " Sempre E per Sempre " (always and forever) and a date.
I will be happy to return it to the owner (who might google the phrase) for the reward of gold value in the ring :-)
I also got 2 silver rings and heavy 15 gram silver cross "Peace"

The rest of the finds have 8$ and keys that go into recycling bin :-)

See you all at the beach!