Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me! Today was my Birthday so I was able to get out for a hunt. I didn’t really plan anything other than i was going to head out and so decided to head to a fairly busy beach south of me, which i knew had been busy on new years eve. I hadn’t been there before so didn’t really know what to expect.
It was overcast when i arrived, which was nice, but soon warmed up. As I got out my car the dude next door to me had a good stare and said G’Day. He spent the next 3 hours watching me grid up and down the thin beach in front of him. That’s the life! I had a chat to him when i was done, and he was eating his 3rd pie. Nice bloke.
I quickly found the towel line and worked that, it gave up $7.75 in spendables (2 x $2, 2 x 1$, 5 x 20c, 2 x 10c, 1x 5c) I then worked a long the back edge to one of the entry points and found a junk surfy necklace pendant. It is very shiny with glass bits, had me going at first but is just a junker. I also found the normal random spoon. This was quite a fancy spoon though, made by “The One” who on investigation make quite nice cutlery sets
I headed home for some lunch, and check in to see if my boys wanted to come and do some detecting in the arvo. They said they were quite happy sat on the couch, so I left them at home and headed back out myself.
There had been a spot i’d done some research on, but was on private property. The places i have detected up untill now have all been public land, parks and beaches etc. I’ve been to ask permission on a couple of private blocks before but always bottled it at the last moment. This time though i was set in my mind to see it through. The lady I asked didn’t really understand, she had a french accent so it took a little explaining. She told me i wouldn’t find anything but junk but was free to look anyway.
I knew the block had been around from early 40’s arial images, but was split sometime between late 1940’s and early 1970’s but the actual land hadn’t changed significantly. I was hopeful of finding something
The ground was littered with targets, most deep iron sounding, but with a few interesting ones picked between. I wanted to make a good impression so kept my digging limited and looked for good targets with the hope of finding an interesting relic to show the lady i asked. After digging a few random car parts, junk iron and can-slaw, i pulled out my first nice relic. A old lighter. It crumbled as it came out in to a couple of pieces, but is largely intact. You can see it on the instagram feed if you look. The cardboard or canvas around the shell is still there. Sweet!
I also pulled out what i think is the tank or innards of another lighter, along with a bullet casing and a tyre vale cover.
Was only about an hour and a half’s hunt, but i didn’t want to outstay my welcome. The lady didn’t seem to get how nice the find was, thinking some local children had been out the back of the place smoking!?! Oh well.
I’ll be back there for sure, and it has given me the confidence to start door knocking for permissions in the area.