Goodies from new years eve

I keep forgetting to post these,although there is not a great deal of nice sparkling gold,there is around $40 in gold coins and small change,most of it came from the Mt main beach,in the early hours before the crowds gather.
 Interesting story here as I was detecting a gut approached me and asked if I had found his nieces
engagement ring,turns out she lost it in the wee hours while celebrating,well the next 3 hours were spent trying to locate it,in the time I was doing this I was approached by 3 other people all looking for lost items,One was a gold ring that was lost further up the beach,another was looking for his wallet and iphone which he had left in a plastic bag.....duhh,and the final person had lost his car keys.

  Although I tried I could not find any of these lost items,which is a shame as the girl was pretty distraught.Some of the items came from the Paeroa race course,unfortunatly the wee heart shaped pendant is not silver but looks good......

a few more bits and pieces

Found a few dollars,along with the never ending sinkers,I had a theory about people getting shelfish in the sand and muddy coastlines,my thoughs were surely they must lose rings and bling etc while poking around after pipis,cockles etc.

 I visited an Eastern Auckland beach and the results were the 4 silver rings in the picture alas no gold,but my feelings are they must be there the bracelet had me going for a while, it is clearly stamped 18kt,turns out it is a cheapie ah well it looked good for a bit........cheers and a great newyear to all

Gold at Whangaporoa

We are still on the Whangaporoa coast,the weather and the fishing has been great, also the area is very pretty and scenic,there has been some very low tides lately so I have been taking advantage of them,combined with the flat seas it has made detecting easy,90 percent of the coins came from around the trees at the ARC park ,the rest are from the beach,the small broken ring (again) I found last week at Army bay,The other gold ring came from Shakespear Bay 9kt,but unfortunatly the stones  are not diamonds,Lots and lots of old metal junk is scattered around the beaches up here I guess left over from the farming and war time era's........thanks jim

I have my doubts about this ring

I found a nice mans gold ring today marked .375,but noticed it was cracked,whem I pulled it it broke as per the photo.To me gold that is even 9kt should be more durable than that,maybe someone else has struck this?.

  All the other items were found in and around Aucklands North shore beaches,it sure was hard work as the beaches have been well and truely detected over the years,but every now and again I would strike an area that produced,another half a tank of diesel in gold coins ($41),two silver rings a few foreign coins and of coarse lead sinkers,a few older pennies in an old park,what I liked, and is one of my better finds is the old St Johns Ambulance medal, it has a number and name on the reverse a little hard to read,as it still needs cleaning 

Te Aroha,Thames goodies

Just a few bits and pieces I picked up from around the Thames area,I have been to Te Aroha race course before,and was told then of a very expensive ring that was lost there at a race meeting,this time back the lady in the office once again reminded of it,no rings turned up but I did find a few pennies and the two threepences.

 The old cap gun came from Thames along with the gold coins and the other silver and old copper coins.The wee silver ring was deep in a local park.The little patent badge was around 8" deep.

Some more good finds (sore back and all)

We were back at Tauranga for two nights staying at Ferguson park the intetion was to stay for one night,but when we woke up the camper was surrounded by cars with lots of kids and mums and dads all there for Saturday sports (cricket).Ah well no hurry as we were blocked in,so a relaxing day was spent watching all the familys etc.Thought I had better not start weaving in and out of them with the MD and digging holes in the middle of the cricket pitch.

 About 6pm all had died down and we had the park back to just us and one or two other campers,of I go and around the kids playground (totlot),well the dollars were coming thick and fast,I gave up around 8pm with a total of $34 plus the gold ring ring (9kt) After such a dry spell on gold now it is the opposite,up early the next morning and back into it,I ended up with a total of $58 in goldies plus a few older decimals,the penny and the shilling are both 1934.The silver thingee I am not sure about,and the other two rings are el cheapo's.I alwas thought there was another guy doing this park.
 Unbelievable all the detecting I have done and never in this park which is probably the most used in Tauranga.........."I WILL BE BACK"

Gold,silver and lead

We are at Waihi beach for two days,dodging the rain a fair bit but managed to put in a few hours on the beach,pretty hard going as it is all sanded up at the moment,but there is areas that hold goodies that are within the etracs range. (namely sinkers at 12"-14") As I hunt in only all metal mode I find I can pick and choose what I dig by listening and watching the sounds and ID's bounce and then stabilize.This machine still just amazes me considering I am still running in basically factory mode.
 The silver ring is a cracker,and the wee gold ring looks old and is marked .375 I think that is 9kt.
the black object when cleaned up was a old bunch of keys,darn no gold ring attached this time.

 The badge although not old is novel,haha I won't need to buy any sinkers for a while.