Adventures of New Zealand Treasure Hunter Around Asia!

MARCH

Let me start with my 1 month trip in March around Malaysia with extra visit to Thailand
My detecting buddy and packed our gear and went to one of the busy Malaysian holiday spots and spend about 10 days :

On a 1st Day of Detecting Andrew got Leak on his CTX3030: 

Lucky for him that was identified immediately, so cleaned, dried and even battery was working well.

As for me i had 2 detectors on the trip :
CTX with 11 inch coil,
ATX with both 12 and 8 coils, so i have some back up. But you know, 24 day trip - anything could happen, so i got 1st problem on day 5 i think : Coil not detecting on CTX :-( basically it got busted.

So for the remaining trip i had to use my ATX .. but wait, later in Malaysia my 12 inch coil also busted.. shit :-( so i was left only with 8 inch coil for the rest of 2 weeks.

Finds from Malaysia:

All rings 19 :

Gold: 

Silver: 

Junkers: 

 Coins after Tumbler:

And here, have a Monkey :

So after that we Decided to go to Thailand and have 2nd attempt to find anything good there (i went last year and could find any jewelry )

Thailand was a bust again, now i am confident that water is too Hot for rings to slip. I even was contacted by another good Australian treasure hunter who had similar results during his 2 week holiday

These are pretty much Thai finds (+ a BUCKET of aluminum and other junk):

Some random Photos from Thailand :

So totals after Asia Trips '


Junk 10
Silver : +6
Gold : +3


Total Rings: 172   Precious: 106
*2015*Rings PlT/PD=0 GOLD=48 STG=58 Junk=66,STG Coins: 8,Keys:32

First Gold ring from the Dirt

Hi guys, will continue catching up on all stories from the past 3 month :-0)

I would like to share this one with you :

Other  days of Side walk detecting: 

Gold : +1

Total Rings: 153   Precious: 97

*2015*Rings PlT/PD=0 GOLD=45 STG=52 Junk=56 TG Coins: 8,Keys:30

Sorry for not posting for 3 months :-( - here is a treat from today :-)

Heya Guys,
Sorry for no coverage of my adventures since march - i was travelling and Detecting Around the world and in NZ.

I have a full folder of pictures and videos to share, but this post will be fresh out of the water :-)

For my Northern hemisphere friends- we have mid winter and water is 13.8 °C

I've spent about 2-3 hours in the water wearing 7 mm wet suit, but almost got hypothermia, so had to ge tout. could not feel my fingers (wearing warm dive gloves) :-(

So, what did i get on this nice winter day :

13 Rings :

* 4 Junk

* 6 Silver

* 3 Gold (all 9ct)

The massive  MASSIVE 95 gram silver chain (it had the Biggest silver ring of the day on it and it was a eye ball find)


Rest of coins and other small pieces:

So for now i will update my count as per last March post ( STAY Tuned for 3 month of finds!)

Junk 4
Silver : +6
Gold : +3


Total Rings: 152   Precious: 96
*2015*Rings PlT/PD=0 GOLD=44 STG=52 Junk=56 TG Coins: 8,Keys:30

Summer summary or February Finds from NEw Zealand

Heya Guys,

So what has been happening since i returned from Brisbane on 17 Feb ?
For a start i had several recovery requests that already been posted, but i missed this one  :

The ring was lost in a VERY VERY COLD water of mountain stream going of Piha waterfall.
I am Glad that i have found it withing 10 minutes of search, but it was VERY VERY COLD even in 7 mm wet-suit and hoodie.

19 February :

Trip to one of the Local beaches produced a very nice haul of finds from wet sand mark:

Rings are 3 junk, 2 silver and 1 9ct gold

This is my 2nd favorite silver ring this year : 

While evening outing on a dry sand gave couple more rings : 

Silver and Junk 

20 February

4 Treasure hunters packed their gear for a distant beach discovery:

But unfortunately no "bay of dreams" this time - all sanded in :-(

Just a costume religious ring:

21 February 

This day was a little bit better. but just a little :

 A tiny 9 ct ring :

22 February 

Another beach another ring! Olga also joined us on a good day out:

My result was a tiny 9 ct and silver : 

23d of February 

A visit to very dirty beach still produced piece of gold :

Silver & Gold, pity that gold is hollow and very light

24th of February 

This is a very interesting Day as we went to Local beach - Kohimarama
Nothing special apart from some steel coins and other junk. 2 hours into the Hunt a bloke came over and advised that in DECEMBER 2014 he lost a ring at a particular part of the beach (not commonly used for swimming) .I asked him to give me general location  (stairs/ rails/trees ) if he could remember any. Then advised to send me picture of the ring and description...
... Several hours later, after gridding the area and removing lots of Junk i have found it couple dozen meters away from the location he stated !

Reunited the next Day : 

25 February 

Trying to discover new places i will work during upcomign winter...
Not a bad result for exploration trip :

Tiny gold, silver ring and couple of silver coins : 

26 February 

Crap weather, bad sanded in conditions and visit to 3! beaches produced nothing more than junk ring and chain + some coins :

27 Fabruary 

Full day metal detecting - visit to 2 beaches produced a pile of stuff!

Unfortunately only 1 light 9 CT gold, then some sort of fake gold ring, 2 silvers and 2 junks

28 Fabruary 

Just a dry sand walk :

Pity - it is a Junker

1 March 

a Very Good day at the beach for me! 

9 ct ring and a hollow, but still pretty nice 9 ct bracelet. . junk ring & victorian shilling

2nd March

Great to be out :

1 gold, 1 silver  & 2 junk 

4th march - Dry Sand day

2 silvers and a Junk

5th March 

A Waiheke island trip - a Bust :-(

Please note: all the above hunts were at least 4-5 hours :-(

Junk +15
Silver : +11
Gold : +8
Silver coins + 2
Keys: + 7

Total Rings: 139   Precious: 87
*2015*Rings PlT/PD=0 GOLD=41 STG=46 Junk=52 TG Coins: 8,Keys:30