Happy New Years! I did get out in the afternoon of new years day for a bit of a swing. I had been wanting to revisit the old abandoned cricket ground during the summer to see if the grass and bracken had died down and more of the pitch had been revealed. I took the opportunity on New Years Day to head down and take a look.
After the short walk up the old roadway to the pitch it was obvious that most of the bush was still there. Whilst some of the ferns had died off, some of the grass had grown further. I setup gridding the opposite direction from last time, as well as knowing better how to dial the machine in, i was hopeful of pulling out the same kind of silver as last time.
First hit was a old bolt. It was pretty chunky so not sure how i missed it last time. It did mean that at least there was hopefully stuff stillt o be found.
It took a while to get the next hit. First coin of the day. 1 Dollar. At least we were off and running. On rechecking the hole i was still getting a 33 TID, which normally is $1 or $2 coin. Pulled it out, 2c. Gah. Oh well, at least i was still pulling things out.
I had a couple more hits, more 2c coins, but not much else other than ring pulls. I decided to move on down to the area i didn’t detect last time. This section when i got down to it was really boggy. All i pulled out was soft drink cans. A little further around at the base of a cliff i got another solid signal. I pulled out what turns out to be a Derringer Cap gun. One side had almost rotted away, but the other side was in quite good nick. A sweet little find. I can imagine a young lad running around whilst his Dad played cricket letting off the caps.
I also checked out the hillside on the way back to the car. I think if there had been anything on the hill it would have washed down in to the gully/drain at the bottom, which i didn’t fancy getting in to with the snakes and leaches. I did find a couple of platforms a bit higher up, but they were covered in modern trash and it was just way to noisy for me to pick through that late in the day. Might be worth a trip back when i have more energy.
It had been lightly raining most of the day, so i thought i’d pop down to my local beach to try my luck after new years evening. I got there and it was packed! What are people doing hanging out on the beach int he rain. Crazy. The entry way provided most of the goodies, 5 bucks odd in spendables.
I did jump across the lagoon on to the side where i had detected previously but struck out, where the old shacks once stood. One of the first hits i got was a 1949 Penny. I was just happy to find something there, it means i was in the right spot and was probably just a bad setup on that day with the detector. It’d be worth going back again and hitting it real low and slow. Once we’ve had some rain in the autumn i’ll head back so the grass dosn’t take a beating.
Overall a nice new years arvo out and about with a good selection of finds.