Big Park Hunt ~ 07-01-2017

Last minute decision to head out to a park I pass whilst on the way to the shopping centre we go to.  I dropped a note on a Facebook group asking to see if anyone else wanted to come down for a swing, but most people were tied up that morning it seems.

When i arrived the council were doing greenwaste tree chipping, which took out the corner of the park i was initially most interested in, as it did have an old house there in the 40’s.  It was on the corner of 2 main roads so would have been hunted heavily, and full of junk anyway.

The park it’s self has a few old cricket pitches on it, it also houses the circus when it is in town, so i was hoping for a bunch of spendables.  Speaking to a guy on the Facebook group later that day, he said he’d had a $100 off it a moth or so prior.

I ended up with $9.95 in spendables (2 x $2, 5 x $1, 4 x 20c, 1 x 10x and 1 x 5c)  Nine Brown Buggers all up too.

After spending a bunch of time in the first half of the park and really only pulling up the spendables and so much canslaw it wasn’t funny, i moved through to the back part of the park.  I noticed straight away that there wa a section of park which either had been left as bush, or had re-vegetated to some extent.  There were a bunch of older big trees in here too, which served as my targets.

This area was much better, less canslaw and I was soon in to the pre-decimals.  All around the bases of the big trees, they are always prime targets in my hunts.  I ended up with three Penny’s (1943, 1949, 1951) and two Half Pennys (1946 and 1948).

I also dug a few random bits and pieces, a key and an oval brass ring (CCR?).  There was also half a cog, from a clock or something, but as i pulled it out i thought i’d found my first Rising Sun badge and got super excited. As i cleaned off the muck i realised I hadn’t filled that bucket lister 🙁  The cog is still kinda cool though.

It was a full day, super hot, but i had 30 good recoveries so was happy with the results.

Evening beach hunt ~ 28-12-2016

Decided to head out after work for a few hours to my local beach last night.  It has been packed over the festive period and I thought there should be some goodies having been left behind.  It was very warm, so it was nice to be by the ocean with a nice breeze coming in.

The hunt started well picking up $1.50 in a spill on the entry way.  I worked my way around the soft sand checking the other entrances.  Not much doing, picked up a further $3.20

Quite a few people came over and asked some questions.  There is a lot of foreign people on this beach for some reason they all ask whether i need a license or such, or if i’m employed by the government?!?  I even got asked one time if i was security looking for bombs…  the mind boggles as the places people have come from that makes them think such things.  I guess the camo shirt and shorts doesn’t help 🙂

The beach was fairly empty when i got there about 6pm, but started to fill up again for sunset, so I wasn’t really able to work the towel line.  High tide was late morning so i wasn’t able to hit that, and the low tide wasn’t that low either.

As it got dark I headed back to the foreshore, but has left it to late and it was getting too dark to see.  I picked up another 70c on the foreshore and called it quits about 8:45pm.

I’ll probably get back down there after the new year when I have a bit more time and hopefully it’s not as busy