Catch Up game with Dale & Urban Gold detecting

Heya all,

As i had 3 PM shift last week, missed all the afternooon tides except one day of detecting on Sunday and Failed recovery on Saturday

Saturday :
Got a call from Dianne, who lost her watch on the beach, spent about an hour in the exact given area, but nothing was found. I believe it was picked up by passers by as watch dropped fro towel :-( and sand ws pretty hard on the beach.
Even that recovery failed, Dianne was very thankful for me coming out.
While searching for the watch i found 9$ and junk pendant on the same beach.


But lets start off Sunday morning when i went on Urban Detecting walk in City center.
Its not a secret that after Saturday night in town, a lot of things are lost on streets, Coins, banknotes, cellphones etc. Most of those items are picked up by cleaners in early hour but tiny stuff like Chains,earrings and other stuff can be missed, Run over by a car and trampled down into concrete or tar  that is used ont he roads.

So my best find for Sunday morning was this nice 2.43 Gram 10 CT gold ring: 

That got me to 10th Gold ring for the year against Dale's 13 (he spent every singe day last week detecting and went ahead of me from 9-9 when we finished the week before)

Please with gold ring, i've decided to get out to the beach and try to score some more.
Glad i Did!

I went o a Local city beach and spent about 2 hours in a wet send, scoring myself 15$ and another 3 rings:

* the best is Indian 18/22 ct Ring with either Sapphire or Citrine 
* Silver ring and the Junk Toe Ring

Here is a close up of Best find for the week: 

So totals after last week are :  *2014*Rings PlT/PD=0 GOLD=11 STG=12 Junk=17

Happy Hunting All!

Birthday weekend Ties my Up 9 Vs 9 gold with Dale

Decided to take advantage of calm ocean and hit water hard on my Birthday (Thanks Mom)

Saturday :
Olga and i went to Waiheke island where i spent 3 hours in the water and almost twisted my wrist working in rocks :-( but my effort was paid off by a very nice haul of finds.

Check this Video Out :

And here is a close up of the best find for the day :

Sunday :
As i was already 8-9 with Dale , loosing only one position- it was very important to score another one.
Dale & Me went to a local city beach and had go in a very calm water.

Results? 9-9 :-) a very nice 18 ct female band :

Best of the weekend: 

Unfortunately i shattered the junk ring with my scoop when retrieving from rocks, oh well.

Have fun!

Excalibur 2 10 Inch coil cover found :-)

Today i had a quick walk at Mission bay and when i was at water edge - saw a coil cover floating in the surf :-)

I know YOU guys lurking on my blog, but never post or txt or call me,

Now you have to :-) ,so whoever lost it there, please call me 0272766257 and i can return to you so you do not damage your coil and no need to buy new one.

By the way - use a simple cable tire strap to prevent the loss of coil cover in the water.

Regards

Someone lost Full Family at the beach...

As i had morning off today, decided to do wet sand with CT3030.
Really wanted to find ring, as Dale is now leading with 8 gold for the year, while i am sitting on 7.
However my rings effort was fruitless :-(

After 2 hours and no good targets in "main drop area" i shifted a bit up to high tide mark.
that is where i scored this nice Silver/Leather Michael Hill necklace with 4 charms  :

Oh yes.. and here is a Family :

Also, please enjoy my favorite photo from Bus trip to the beach:

Have fun and happy hunting ;-)

Battling the waves,yields silver :-)

As all the easy detecting spots been checked after last weekend, nothing left besides hard yaka of water detecting.

When Dale and i arrived to the beach, waves were smashing the shore, pointing that there should be some washouts below the tide mark.

I was very hesitating about going into the waves, lets say i even chickened out , but Dale was a bit braver so we went.

We couldn't spend more than 2 hours as it was VERY exhausting, but result was ok = Great physical exercise and a Silver each :-)

My results are below :

Good luck all!

White's Dual Field Pi strikes gold again :-)

Most of New Zealanders headed off to the beach over this weekend as summer is coming and going this year. By me observation it is only 3d sunny&warm weekend this summer, which actually ends in 2 weeks time.

And unfortunately the low tide is mid day, so the whole of drop zone is below low tide mark ... So what is the solution ? - Put wetsuite , weight belt and grab my new favorite - White's Dual Field Pi

So, what is the result ? -  Check it out below   :

And the best of it :

The gold ring is 18 CT. 5.72 grab :-)
Earring is 925 silver an pendant that was attached to above chain seems to be junk.

This is my gold number 7 for the year ;-)

Have fun all!

Garmin forerunner 910xt & Double gold !

Heya guys!

Finally managed to score some nice pieces after one week of gold drought .

Check out this cool clip from last night as well :

And here is a pic of all best finds :

Good luck and & happy hunting! :-)