C. Nyal de Kaye
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Many on this Forum will never have the chance to see and/or explore for themselves what others enjoy by virtue of their land of birth.
So here are a few pics from various Aussie things observed and photographed whilst detecting. Most will probably never see them, as we won't see yours, so I hope that you find them of interest. There is no chronological order in what follows.
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The first is a view of a gold field in Western Australia. My intent is to show its vastness, isolation and, in some ways, the difficulty of detecting on it. You can see the large lumps of quartz that forces the coil to be well-above ground level much of the time. This creates a loss of detecting depth.
In some places the quartz rubble is so thick, and so jammed together, that there is little red earth to be seen. I spent an afternoon here and found a few small nuggets, but I should have stayed a week.
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This lump gave off quite a good signal and was about a foot down. There was a cold wind blowing, hence the red wind-cheater. The wind was gusty and at times blew my earphones right off. That why they're tied on with the white clothe.
The signal was good, but the result was a bit disappointing being only a one gram nugget caught up in the middle of the conglomerate.
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This is a huge quartz blow in the Golden Triangle in Victoria. It is often considered axiomatic that where there is quartz there is gold. That's not true. This photo does not truly indicate just how big this great lump of quartz is. However, it's the only pic I've got that hints at its size. The pic was taken about halfway up the blow, so it really is a large lump of quartz.
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Here is the shaft dug right below the quartz blow shown above. I just saw it and didn't dig at all. No gold was found there. What a lot of effort for no result, but that's the nature of the business.
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This is a "guzunder tree", so named because the pot "goes under" the bed. That joke is as old as the hills, but I'm repeating it anyway. This great piece of Australian art may be viewed out from Leonora in Western Australia. You can add to it if you have a guzunder you want to get rid of.
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I can't recall where this was taken, except to say it was somewhere in Western Australia. It shows the dingo equivalent of McDonalds.
This is the dingo's cool summer dining room. In there they feast on kangaroos that they have caught. The interior is littered with bones and has a fragrance that even a good spin-doctor would be unable to promote. If you look closely at the right hand side you will see one of their victims.
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They say that the roads are paved with gold in Western Australia and my wife loves detecting them. It's easy walking and she has a happy knack of picking up good signals. It works like this: she detects a target, sticks in a flag to show me where it is, and I come along and dig 'em up. You can see her little collection of bright yellow flags in the pic.
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Here she found a one grammer right in the middle of the road. Yes, I filled in the hole.
In fact, she found four targets along this little bit of road. They were all small, the largest being 1.8grams. To save me any risk of injury, she kindly and quickly relieves me of any valuable heavy nuggets that I recover. She does the same with heavy (or even light) gold rings that I occasionally find on a beach, or in a park. Little kindnesses like this make for a happy marriage!
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This rock wallaby was a bit of a stickybeak. He just had to come out to see who was there, so we gave him a bit of bread and he seemed quite happy with the transaction.
To all the animal activists: Please, no critical comments about giving him one small piece of bread - it was only a tiny bit - honest it was.
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On our way home from Western Australia we travelled right through the centre of Oz. Here is a pic of the strange formation called The Olgas.
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The endless road - it really is quite a trip, but we love every moment of it.
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Here is the view of Ayres Rock from our campsite.
We walked right around the rock - I think it's about 10 kilometres (6 miles), something like that.
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This is in the Golden Triangle in the southern state of Victoria. Despite appearances to the contrary (her big gloves), she didn't dig the hole. The ground here is harder than a politician
So here are a few pics from various Aussie things observed and photographed whilst detecting. Most will probably never see them, as we won't see yours, so I hope that you find them of interest. There is no chronological order in what follows.
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The first is a view of a gold field in Western Australia. My intent is to show its vastness, isolation and, in some ways, the difficulty of detecting on it. You can see the large lumps of quartz that forces the coil to be well-above ground level much of the time. This creates a loss of detecting depth.
In some places the quartz rubble is so thick, and so jammed together, that there is little red earth to be seen. I spent an afternoon here and found a few small nuggets, but I should have stayed a week.
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This lump gave off quite a good signal and was about a foot down. There was a cold wind blowing, hence the red wind-cheater. The wind was gusty and at times blew my earphones right off. That why they're tied on with the white clothe.
The signal was good, but the result was a bit disappointing being only a one gram nugget caught up in the middle of the conglomerate.
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This is a huge quartz blow in the Golden Triangle in Victoria. It is often considered axiomatic that where there is quartz there is gold. That's not true. This photo does not truly indicate just how big this great lump of quartz is. However, it's the only pic I've got that hints at its size. The pic was taken about halfway up the blow, so it really is a large lump of quartz.
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Here is the shaft dug right below the quartz blow shown above. I just saw it and didn't dig at all. No gold was found there. What a lot of effort for no result, but that's the nature of the business.
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This is a "guzunder tree", so named because the pot "goes under" the bed. That joke is as old as the hills, but I'm repeating it anyway. This great piece of Australian art may be viewed out from Leonora in Western Australia. You can add to it if you have a guzunder you want to get rid of.
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I can't recall where this was taken, except to say it was somewhere in Western Australia. It shows the dingo equivalent of McDonalds.
This is the dingo's cool summer dining room. In there they feast on kangaroos that they have caught. The interior is littered with bones and has a fragrance that even a good spin-doctor would be unable to promote. If you look closely at the right hand side you will see one of their victims.
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They say that the roads are paved with gold in Western Australia and my wife loves detecting them. It's easy walking and she has a happy knack of picking up good signals. It works like this: she detects a target, sticks in a flag to show me where it is, and I come along and dig 'em up. You can see her little collection of bright yellow flags in the pic.
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Here she found a one grammer right in the middle of the road. Yes, I filled in the hole.
In fact, she found four targets along this little bit of road. They were all small, the largest being 1.8grams. To save me any risk of injury, she kindly and quickly relieves me of any valuable heavy nuggets that I recover. She does the same with heavy (or even light) gold rings that I occasionally find on a beach, or in a park. Little kindnesses like this make for a happy marriage!
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This rock wallaby was a bit of a stickybeak. He just had to come out to see who was there, so we gave him a bit of bread and he seemed quite happy with the transaction.
To all the animal activists: Please, no critical comments about giving him one small piece of bread - it was only a tiny bit - honest it was.
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On our way home from Western Australia we travelled right through the centre of Oz. Here is a pic of the strange formation called The Olgas.
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The endless road - it really is quite a trip, but we love every moment of it.
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Here is the view of Ayres Rock from our campsite.
We walked right around the rock - I think it's about 10 kilometres (6 miles), something like that.
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This is in the Golden Triangle in the southern state of Victoria. Despite appearances to the contrary (her big gloves), she didn't dig the hole. The ground here is harder than a politician
Would love to have visited Australia and hunted years ago if I had been financially able to but couldn't do it now at all....soooo Thank you for the posting trip to your great country....Still would be scared of all those poisonous snakes and things...but America has them, also, just have to keep a watch out when in areas where they would likely be! May God Bless you and yours to find the gold and continue a great time being together and enjoying life in God's great outdoors! Amen! Here in Missouri we have huge limestone and granite rocks instead of the Quartz ones you have there! Looking forward to Part 2! 
Ma Betty