ok mate I feel sorry for ya.
There's plenty of spots to find gold in Victoria, it just depends how much and what size gold your hoping to find plus how far your prepared to travel along with the time you have up your sleeve to spend at the ultimate destination.
Personally, I usually do a few things first before I even load the car, usually the day before too. I like test the detector and make sure battery's are well charge ready so I can get after it as soon as I arrive. I usually take a thermos for the drive too, particularly with covid these days, ya don't want to drop into any filthy servo as most are today and catch bloody covid from some dirty stinking rotten grot. Pack a good feed too, because the name of the game is cut ya costs which is ultimately going to finance more trips away.
There's a couple of spots I always find gold. Seems your in central Vic which is good, because one of them is about 1/2 hour the other side of Bendigo. Last time I was there I had only walked about 20m from the car when I dug a nice little 12g piece, was only about 5" down, great signal, was using a 15" NF mono. The other spot is about another 1/2 hour drive further out and I usually go there if I get frustrated by not finding anything at the first spot.
Oh before I go any further, you may also want to be sure you've a miners right, it just may save you a lot of grief. You can get them online for around $25 I think they are these days. Anyway, if I don't do any good at the second spot I also sometimes go back to the first spot and circle an area where I last found a nice bit, its worked wonders for me. I start at the place I found the last nuggie and walk circles around it and move out about 1 foot each time I do a full circle. I keep doing this until I walk into a tree or something which bring me to another point. Don't forget to look where your going, countless times I walked into trees, bloody sharp grass trees and even nearly walked into in open shaft one day. Luckly my watch alarm rang when I raised my wrist to turn it off when the detector went crazy. You wouldn't believe it, there fare smack in the middle of my coil was another 3/4oz piece. Even today I have no idea how it got there but blow me down when I raised my wrist to turn the alarm off I must have tilted the coil and the nugget fell down the shaft... you think I wasn't pissed! That was about 1/2 hour out from Bendigo. You know Bendigo don't ya? Well anyway if ya turn up, no hang on, go down whats it called road. Bout half way down there's a dirt track, usually a king brown bottle is on the corner. Take a right there and head back out towards me second spot out from Bendigo till the road ends. Good luck!
As many are finding out who are trying to book in certain areas the gates are already being locked for that exact reason :awful:
