schoolies week at the gold coast beaches

[stan_moto]

Hello All. Went to the gold coast beach early this week and had a good day. I left it a bit late as all the locals probably cleaned up big time in the two previous weeks. In Queensland the students who finish high school towards the end of November spend a week down the gold coast to let their hair down. Plenty of music and other activities for the whole week on the beach.( this is called schoolies week) I would say that there would be thousands from all over the state. The next week it is the turn for the New South Wales students to come up and cross the boarder for their week of fun before going to university or the work force. My daughter was down there with her school friends sharing a unit belonging to a friend of my son who finished university this year. Some groups were paying over three thousand dollars for an apartment for a week. They suck the kids dry each year. I am going back down there early next week and have another try. The spending money came to132 coins for a total of $78.40.i also picked up six foreign coins. The jewellery department showed up with one gold ring there are two lots of hallmark numbers. One small heart silver locket. One silver dragon fly with a bit of chain on the loop. Next is a very heavy bracelet with flattened big links .925 silver looks like a mans one by the size and weight. One heavy thick silver round medallion no markings with a small loop on the top and the size of a fifty cent coin. The last item is a badge with I love (heart) Kurt. And a brand new smoking pipe for a buzz. or two. Found a couple of apartment keys that I handed in as they charge around $100.00. Deposit if not returned. A handful of plastic lighters and rubbish. That

 

[beachguy777]

Stan, I think your "scaring" me again, with this incredible post of yours.:| First of all I'm "stunned" at the ammount of money and loot you found, but I'm simply amazed at the fact that these poor kids, (whether they're rich or poor) end up paying that much for an apartment for a week of fun. I never had that much fun in my life. Well, it sounds like you had a terriffic "bounty" at that spot, and the thing that really catches my interest (especially) is the fact that you're using the WOT coil. I guss I don't need to ask if you like that coil very much. I think it's speaking for itself here. Geat finds and a very imformative post.

 

[JHM]

A hit or 2 off that thing and you won't care if you find anything or not.

 

[B.RATNY]

Nice pile of coins there Stan. I might have to add a 15" WOT to my Christmas list.
HH Butch NY

 

[beachguy777]

Stan, is there any "tricks" involved with that coletek coil, like a special wiring hookup? I'm so impressed with that coil from a number of different posts I've seen. That sounds like a really great, bigger, deeper, coil to have. I have the 10.5 inch Minelab, but I definitely want to get a bigger coil for more coverage and hopefully a little deeper finds. Sincerely, Marc Trainor.

 

[beachguy777]

JHM, I bet your showing your age. Did you and I come from the same "wild hippy era", I'm thinking about, or am I being too foreward in my assumptions?:|

 

[JHM]

I just turned 49 and yes I used to have a few wild days.

 

[Golden]

and the other stuff too. Have you got a few days holidays off in December? I've got days days off, and guess what I'll be doind? Detecting, detecting.....! Heading to Port Campbell on the Victorian coast, the shipwreck coast! For beach detecting, then off to the goldfields around Castlemaine. Have you heard about the fires north, north/east and north/west of Gipplsland? Around 410,000 hectares have burnt, and the fires are still raging. There're looking at bringing in 100 guys from the USA!Apparently we don't have enough firefighters! My boss is doing some of the water cartage for the fires, while I'm holding the fort at work.
Ang

 

[beachguy777]

Golden, this might almost be "sacrilegious" to say this, but what about the possibility of going over some of the place where the fire burned, if it seems like it's OK, at any given place to do so. You might even be able to help people find stuff from their burnt down houses or businesses that was metal of some kind. Just a thought, and I'm not advocating, pillaging peoples dwellings, but like I said, if it looks kosher enough to do so. You know, if someone's house burned down and they had some valuable jewelery in the house at the time, maybe you could find it for them, possibly get a reward or just the satisfaction of helping them find it, if it wasn't melted down by the fire. That would be my fear, that a fire that hot, might just melt everything down go nothing.

 

[Golden]

Hi Beachguy, that is an admirable thought. But I would say that given the circumstances, they wouldn't want "rubbernecks" around! But you know, we've already thought about detecting on the goldfileds where the fire would have gone through. There would be more gold mines, shafts and sites to discover, that's been uncovered, in some of those areas. But I think DSE will close those areas off to allow for revegetation. It's their way...

 

[beachguy777]

Boy, that was a quick response. It's 11:50 am here in San Diego. You must be on the forum at the same time. I don't know who the DSE people are, but they sound pretty scary, and nothing to mess with. I hear ya talkin' on that one. Better wait till things revegitate and just play it as a regular endeavor to pursue if possible later. That's interesting though, what your saying about the gold mine shafts. I guess they'd be a lot more visible after the fire. Boy I'd hate to piss off some gold mine owner by going into his mine without permission.:sad: Don't think that would be a good thing. Gee I said that a little graphiclly, hope it didn't affend you. I think of you as one of the guys, but I still know your a lady, and don't mean to be crude. Yours truly, Marc the lark.:|

 

[Golden]

the gold mine's I'm talking about are just abandoned mines and shafts from long ago. It's not like people own them, unless they have a block or property, and there's one of these on there. This is stuff left behind from the bygone days of the 1800's, hidden in the bush. If you could see the Aussie bush, you'd know what I mean. Very thick and dense, even the undergrowth is like that. It's not a place I'd like to get lost in. But the areas I refer to I know fairly well. Still, you have to becareful. I did get lost once, for about four hours, a few years ago. I was on my own. I didn't worry because I knew eventually I would get to a dirt road, and all roads lead to somewhere. But I didn';t have any water with me. Anyway, to cut a long story short, I did manage to find my way out. From then on, I took a compass! By the way, no offence taken!

 

[Mick in Dubbo]

That was a great hunt Stan. I love it when you get days like that. Got the chance to hunt Meriwether beach in Newcastle a couple of months back and come up with a total of $0!
Hopefully, you'll get to clean up when the NSW kids get there!
All the best,
Mick Evans.

 

[beachguy777]

You are living an adventure, Golden. I got lost too, once in Estes Park in the higher elevations of Colorado. I had my topographic map, compass and quite a bit of training in mapping and outdoors stuff, but when we camped out, it started to snow, and when we woke up, we couldn't see the "lay of the land", so to speak, which you pretty much have to to use a compass. It was foggy and snow covered and I couldn't see any identifiable peaks or obects to hone in on with the map, and I started to get scared. In that area, not all roads lead to somewhere. They could lead off a cliff or something. Thank God, someone was smart enough to put red ties on some of the trees and we followed that and managed to get down, but it was -5 degrees, so I didn't want to stay up there and get lost. This was before GPS, so it was either, "guess which way to go", or follow the red ties on the trees. I think GPS is a wonderful thing, and I"m dying to get a decent one, but I'd never leave on a trip to the wilderness without an old fashoned compass and a topo map, just in case the GPS batteries die, or it dies, or something technical like that happens where you can't read where your at. I'd always use a compass for a backup. Well now that I've lectured on all that, which most of you probably know anyway, forgive me if I insulted your intellegence, but if one here uses a compass for a backup and it saves their life, I guess it was worth while. Sounds like some pretty fertil areas out there with the old gold mines. Do you ever get any action out of those? Very interesting.

 

[beachguy777]

That's fascinating about the old gold mines. I for one wouldn't go out anywhere far without an old fashioned compass. I had a pretty scary experience a number of years back in Colorado, where it snowed and we were way up in the mountains, and I couldn't see the lay of the land in order to verify where we were on the topo map. This was before GPS, so the only way we got down safely, was some very smart people put some red ties on the trees on the trail down and we managed to get out. When there's snow and fog, it's pretty hard to discern any kind of verifiable landmark, to try and find the right trail. Up there, it's a different deal. Not all roads lead to safety. There's only one reasonably one, otherwise you might get stuck on a cliff somewhere.

 

[stan_moto]

Hello Mick. Thanks for reading the mail. I probably could have done a little better had I gone every three or four days through the festivals but seeing my daughter was there for the first week which was Queensland week as she finished high school this year. She didn

 

[stan_moto]

Hello Angela. Yes I will be going down the whole coast areas and doing some of the beaches that a lot of the local detectors don

 

[beachguy777]

Yea, I missed that one JHM. If you smoked some stuff out of that pipe, you might not even make it to the beach to detect.