7 Ring Day , wow ... but no Gold :-(

Daylight savings... what a pain in the ass when you need to wake up early in the morning....
... Andrew braved up and txted me 5:45am NEW Time that we are going....
I couldn't believe... so early o.o.....x.x ...

The start of day day was at SH1 highway petrol station with White Chocolate Blueberry muffins and Coffee as we were heading up north to Omaha area.

The day was so warm and beautiful that we really wanted just go for a swim :-) but water is still pretty cold, so we passed on water activities.

Targets were slow, but consistent with 1st target sinker and next target Stainless steel ring . That gave us some hope for real treasure. But gold and 1-2$ coins were all VERY VERY deep so even our CTX with 11 (me for today) and Andey with 17 missed all gold . We spent well over 5 hours detecting at Omaha and Tawharanui Peninsula .

My totals are below:

 
And cleaned:

Would Queen Victoria wear that? ;-)

With all the crazy weather we had this week, there should be some cuts - that is what i though.
Dan also called me saying i should go for a detect as certain beaches we washed away. But unfortunately I had to work and there was a limited time to get to the low tide time, so Dale and i met up at Takapuna ... Wrong beach :-( sanded in with extra seaweed on top. being at rush hour, there was no way we could get fast to any south side beaches, so we decided to stick to one of local parks.

Glad we did! i got the best silver item i even dug up in the dirt :
over 30 gram and over 80 CZ  Silver bracelet :

It had all stones intact, but 2 were cracked :-( , so when i was washing it on stone fall apart.. eh... maybe i will restore it later on... very beautiful bracelet

Here are some other finds from the evening :

The dog tag (goes into pet tag collection) has a new name : Phoebe
* 4 pennys all came from one hole, deep 30 sm down, below "fill" soil . and all are Victorian pennys with years: 186X , 1870, 1876 & 1877

Yet another good evening :-)
thanks for stopping by

Treasure hunting Rarotonga #5 August 2013

Finally i got a minute to Put a video togather about my fifth trip to Rarotnonga!

The sad news - is that my CTX leaked on the last day... Stupid Battery design :

But on the other hand, i finally got a ring worth appraisal :

An interesting coin find is a 1$ nz 1983 from 50th anniversary of NZ coinage set:

All of the finds:

And the 2 gold rings:

See you all at the beach! 

Excalibur 2 with 8 inch Coil Trial While CTX is in Repair

Good Day everyone,

Am still processing my Rarotonga Video and Minelab repairing my CTX. So i Got Myself Excalibur 2 with * Inch coil (i used 10 Inch coil for over a year prior CTX)

Same as before, i would say that Shaft is Crap and i need to get Straight shaft as soon as possible.
Performance- love it! :-)
here are finds from just 2  hours from Takapuna (that is so cleaned out by us....) Photo is missing 1$ coin and 3*50c coins that i spent on the bus:

Silver items are 3d and an earring.

Next step - test in water.

15 August trip to Ngaruawahia, Silver Ring # 50 for the year and more

First of all i would like to Thank Dale for making this trip happening - it was a great day out!

I set 2 alarm clocks for 06:00 and 06:05. I do not remember switching 06:00 but exactly when 06:05 am went off - i got a call from Dale saying that he is 20 minutes away....
... I was Running like crazy chicken around the house putting my shit together....
Headphones- check,
Lesche -Check

Knee pads, Gloves, pouch - Check

Propointer?! where the heck is propointer...... Check

06:30 we took off with a first stop at Huntly for couple of hours with a mixed results , had breakfast and went to  Ngaruawahia.

We found a really nice area, but strange... The ground has numerous targets... heaps and heaps of pennies and no deeper than 4 inches. But further down in the ground- some metal or hot rocks that was constantly giving ferrous signals.

Having so many good targets, we had to discriminate and ignore background ferrous sound and go very very slow... and that is where ctx3030 kicked in showing how advanced it is over many other detectors. i doubt that any low range detectors would be able to pick up good targets masked by pile of ferrous junk underneath.

Anyway. a lot of talking, here are interesting finds. The first one consists of 3 pieces. Where i found only 1/3 but Dale helped out and found the rest 2 - the complete Cricket Buckle! i would say its pretty rare to find one in NZ. but here we go :

It is a pity that actual "Shield" of the buckle was found by Dale (like next to me where i found the 1/3 piece of buckle) and i would not be able to claim buckle award :-(

Here is close look from the ground:

There were heaps and heaps of 1-2C pieces that i have excluded from this post, but here are all of the finds before clean up and separation :

Some of You might ask : " what is that thing next to the buckle ? " that  jew's-harp :

 

Another good find was a following silver charm bracelet : 

About the sunset time ,when we already packed to go back, Andrew called me saying that he is on the way to Takapuna . So Dale and i joined him for an hour, where i got my #50 Silver ring for the year, 12th Silver coin for the day (3d), beating Dale with his personal best of 11 silvers from last week trip and a 2$ coin :-)
Dale and Andrew also got a silver ring at Takapuna .

Here are all of the non 1-2c finds for the day :

GRRRrRR!! i so was hoping for another Full house, but both Florins are non silver :-(

And here is my oldest find for the trip UK Shilling 1877 :

Thanks for stopping by and see you around!

Gold! ゴールド! 金 ! Or! Золото! - Ring# 41 for a year

After Thursday hard out night i though that i would give it a miss on friday,
But got a call from Dale in the morning if i was keen for more detecting... you know me... i am always keen :-)
With weather being absolutely fantastic and tide around 3 pm we had some time before for a park hunt.

First we went to Western Park just for a quick scan , but effort was fruitless. However there was an interesting eye find , the rock signed by mysterious girl :

Then we went to another west Auckland park that has original / non reinstated soil, but it was too young :-( got couple of pennies - one with word STELLA stamp over one side and a Chinese coin with a hole

Close to tide we went to Long Bay , where targets were very few and far in between.
By the time i scored the below watch

, Dale had to leave, but i decided to stay as i had a plan to find my gold ring.. Glad i stayed! Right after Dale left, i got 12-38 and 2 scoops down found this beautiful 8 Gram 22 (916) Gold Ring!

And here is a Video of the Find!

Thanks for watching and see you out there!

Attempt # 1 to get 100$ in one day.. Half way there!

Heya all,
Dale and i went on a long distance trip yestarday having two different objectives
Dale wanted to get old coins, i wanted to get 100$ in one day...
.. Important thing to mention, both of use were using CTX3030, but dale with 12 inch coil, while i was using 17 inch coil.

This resulted in a mixed outcome- Dale was able to pick up smaller silver coins from dry soil layer underneath wet layer, where i was not hearing them. So i got NO silver coins(or maybe i was just unlucky) and Dale got.... 11!
He almost got Full house in one day - missing the Florin :-(

Then in the evening i had another hour in the park with Olly in attempt to get at least 1 silver coin for the day - and i got it (after changing to smaller coil) - 1934 Shilling

Overall a good day, but very exhausting. i would rather be at the beach :

Total coins for the day :112 coins (1/2Cent coins are not in the picture)