Mick in Dubbo
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I got home last night from Sydney with a record haul of $333.80. $211.05 with the Ace and $122.75 with the X-terra 70. I think it was ten days that I went out on, mostly pre-breakfast hunts as family stuff happened after that.
One of the early hunts was with werewolf who posts here sometimes. We hunted in one of my honey holes that I found a couple of years ago. I normally pull just over a $100 out of this spot, but it was a bit light on this year and we only pulled out $40 each.
It took me 4.5 hours longer than werewolf though. He was awesome to watch in action. The hours of regular hunting that he does really shows up in his efficiency. He has gone to the dark side though as the is using a Cibola.
we swapped detectors for a bit and he still kicked my butt, so I begged him to swap back again.
My excuse though was I talking to passers by who were curious.
He has indicated that he might come back to the light and get another Ace again, so we might see him posting here again soon. We had a great time together.
When taking the kids to surfing lessons the next day, I herd a news story that gave me the location of what sounded like a really hot spot. It took a week before I could get to hunting this spot but once there, I hunted for just on 4 hours and returned with $83 in my finds bag. Not bad for a free tip from the news.
I did have a couple of goes at hunting kids play ground using a local street directory with them marked in, this turned into a waist of time, returning only $11 for 2.5 hours of hunting. I then decided to walk to a couple of parks within walking distance of where I was staying and equalled that $11 in about 45 mins.
A couple of days back I hunted at bald Hill Stanwell Park. This spot is both the birth place of the hang glider and the place that Lawrence Hargrave carried out a lot of his research into heavier than air flight. He is credited with the invention of the box kite (which lifted him off the ground) the modern airfoil, which the Wright bros used to fly and what was called the Le Rhone radial motor, which was the most commonly used motor on aircraft in WWI. The Germans were so impressed with it, that they used them when ever possible. He wasn't one to worry about copy wright which resulted in others like the Le Rhone bros using his knowledge.
I started the hunt at 7AM, but by 7:40, I was joined by the first of many hang glider instructors. Needless to say, I didn't hunt much longer (finding only $6) but enjoyed the next few hours of watching beautiful free flight. On leaving, I took a wrong turn and found that I was heading south instead of north. As I was heading in the wrong direction, I went to Thiroul beach and hunted the park behind it. It's here were my brother has been quite active in the Surf life saving club. Some of you may remember a couple of posts that iI put up in July 2007 about his attempt to swim the English Chanel. I talked to him last night and his booked his spot to go again in the first week of August 2010. I'll let you know how he goes. After a bit over an hour, I'd pulled up just over $20 and called it quits.
At the end of the trip, I'd set another record for the quickest that a detector had paid for itself. The Ace achieved this in 5 weeks. Actually, during this ten day period, it had covered it's cost. Speaking of personal records, my totals ended at $1111.80, which is the first time that I've gone over the $1000 mark in a calender year. If I could live in the big smoke, it would be easy but, that's the way it goes.
Happy new year to all.
Mick Evans.
P.S. I forgot to mention the Photos. The first one is of all the finds and the second one is of the foreign coins. From left to right is an English 20 pence, an English 2 pence, a Singapore $1 coin, a New Zealand 20 cent piece and a Fun land token from Ulladulla. I remember camping in this south coast town some 27 years ago when riding my push bike with a couple of mates from Sydney to Moruya some 320kms distance (200 miles). we camped in Moruya for a couple of weeks.
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One of the early hunts was with werewolf who posts here sometimes. We hunted in one of my honey holes that I found a couple of years ago. I normally pull just over a $100 out of this spot, but it was a bit light on this year and we only pulled out $40 each.
It took me 4.5 hours longer than werewolf though. He was awesome to watch in action. The hours of regular hunting that he does really shows up in his efficiency. He has gone to the dark side though as the is using a Cibola. we swapped detectors for a bit and he still kicked my butt, so I begged him to swap back again. My excuse though was I talking to passers by who were curious. He has indicated that he might come back to the light and get another Ace again, so we might see him posting here again soon. We had a great time together.When taking the kids to surfing lessons the next day, I herd a news story that gave me the location of what sounded like a really hot spot. It took a week before I could get to hunting this spot but once there, I hunted for just on 4 hours and returned with $83 in my finds bag. Not bad for a free tip from the news.
I did have a couple of goes at hunting kids play ground using a local street directory with them marked in, this turned into a waist of time, returning only $11 for 2.5 hours of hunting. I then decided to walk to a couple of parks within walking distance of where I was staying and equalled that $11 in about 45 mins.
A couple of days back I hunted at bald Hill Stanwell Park. This spot is both the birth place of the hang glider and the place that Lawrence Hargrave carried out a lot of his research into heavier than air flight. He is credited with the invention of the box kite (which lifted him off the ground) the modern airfoil, which the Wright bros used to fly and what was called the Le Rhone radial motor, which was the most commonly used motor on aircraft in WWI. The Germans were so impressed with it, that they used them when ever possible. He wasn't one to worry about copy wright which resulted in others like the Le Rhone bros using his knowledge.
I started the hunt at 7AM, but by 7:40, I was joined by the first of many hang glider instructors. Needless to say, I didn't hunt much longer (finding only $6) but enjoyed the next few hours of watching beautiful free flight. On leaving, I took a wrong turn and found that I was heading south instead of north. As I was heading in the wrong direction, I went to Thiroul beach and hunted the park behind it. It's here were my brother has been quite active in the Surf life saving club. Some of you may remember a couple of posts that iI put up in July 2007 about his attempt to swim the English Chanel. I talked to him last night and his booked his spot to go again in the first week of August 2010. I'll let you know how he goes. After a bit over an hour, I'd pulled up just over $20 and called it quits.
At the end of the trip, I'd set another record for the quickest that a detector had paid for itself. The Ace achieved this in 5 weeks. Actually, during this ten day period, it had covered it's cost. Speaking of personal records, my totals ended at $1111.80, which is the first time that I've gone over the $1000 mark in a calender year. If I could live in the big smoke, it would be easy but, that's the way it goes.
Happy new year to all.
Mick Evans.
P.S. I forgot to mention the Photos. The first one is of all the finds and the second one is of the foreign coins. From left to right is an English 20 pence, an English 2 pence, a Singapore $1 coin, a New Zealand 20 cent piece and a Fun land token from Ulladulla. I remember camping in this south coast town some 27 years ago when riding my push bike with a couple of mates from Sydney to Moruya some 320kms distance (200 miles). we camped in Moruya for a couple of weeks.
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WTG!
