Hi again all,have just confirmed todays ring is number 9,I am more than happy with that,funny how they seem to turn up when you least expect it.I guess if I dig enough rubbish the odds are on my side.

Yippee gold No:10 or is it 11

Spent a quite afternoon working my way around the base of some large trees at one of the ARC parks,finding a few coins of various values kept the interest up,I was just about ready to give up when I get this 12-24 signal and dug up this 9kt ring,pretty sure this is number 11 for the year,I will have to have a count up and go back on my blog to confirm the exact number. Shame the tides are not lower as the beach is looking good and the sea flat as....

Gold no: 9

First a note on a air ring recovery I tried,but a little background first.I got a call from Alan at Tauranga to say he had tried to find a lost air ring with no success,and on trying the existing air ring on the etrac there was no response at all,I had a thought that my Xterra 705 that has a pretty sensitive gold setting may be able to locate it.At the owners house a quick ground balance and a wave over the serviving air ring gave no result at all,apparently it is white gold and clearly marked 9kt (see pic).Anyone have any thoughts?As this has me stumped.....also has me thinking what else I (we) are missing......hmmmmm.

  Back at Shakespear bay for a few hours and found gold no:9 for the year ( I counted wrong on the last post)

Two golds in two days......yippeee

Here are again back at the Mount for a few days,just had an excellant few weeks celebrating my wifes 60th birthday with a cruise around NZ then to Tasmania,Melbourne,Sydney.Then a great week with no1 son and his lovely lady in Surfers,Wouldn't you know it Surfers just had 5 metre swells and the beach is very scalloped out and looking good for detecting........did I take a detector....dont ask.After a bit of sulking I managed to get over it.

 Back at the Mt and talking to Allan (etrac user) learned of a lost valuable ring,so a plan was hatched with Allan,Colin (CTX owner) and myself to try a recovery operation,At the beach at 7am and an extensive grid search was tried,unfortunatly there was no loud YEE HAA'S...Later that evening I tried an older section of beach that produced a few dollars and my 6th gold ring 9kt for the year,the following evening I was back to the main beach on the low tide and turned up no 7 for the year this is a chunky ring marked 414 I assume that is 12kt . Also a wee silver ring, and a no go 18kt plated ladies watch.The two rings are going on a three month probation to Mr Plod,hopefully I will get them back again.