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Wednesday 24 October 2012

My weeks wages

We stayed one night at Pahia,I walked to the beach late in the afternoon for a quick detect,it was a great sight the sea was flat and not a breath of wind,this would have to be one of NZ's prettiest beaches.
 In around 2 hours I found $10 and a few older decimal coins also one sixpence,up early the next morning and caught the low tide,things were pretty slow going (mostly due to curious tourists with silly questions) can't blame them though,its just hard being polite when time is limited.But did my PR thing.At the far end of the beach an area right on the inner natural curve line started to produce coins,
honestly there was a coin at every step just continous beep beep beeps,about then my wife arrived,I was locating and digging objects as she was using the pinpointer and refilling the holes,heck by the time we finnished the beach looked like a mob of rabbits had been through there,fortunatly there was not a lot of sunbathers around.


 Eventually the goodies dropped away due to the sand depth (and hunger + a sore back) it all came to an end.In total there is 216 coins including $1 and $2 ($47) three pennies,2 halfpennys,lots of old decimals,only one silver ring.But a cool wee badge with the words Qantas junior flyer.Plus around 8 foreign coins,this beach must still hold enormous amounts of coins etc as the area we did was only 50 metres long.......all in all a great day well worth the massive dose of sun burn.  KJ

4 comments:

  1. Wow Jim 216 coins. That has to be some sort of record. Well done. Was that with the E Trac?

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    1. yep sure was the E Trac. seems to be a bug in the XTERA. got to get it sorted.
      chris not sure where you live but we are going to be in Long Bay saturday (but only for the day) if you are around would love to catch up with you. 0212668263

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  2. That is a ton of coins, well done!

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  3. i used to live across the road from the beach at paihia... its were i first saw metal detectors... back in the 80s...its been a l
    dream of mine to get back up there again one day to detect ..

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