Hunt #2
Team Bogan went out for a rare day hunt on an Adelaide metro beach for two hours and here are the finds ...
Nothing to crow about ... But we were both very excited to find ... SINKERS! Why you ask? Well firstly our beaches have been sanded in meaning little to no targets - not even bottle caps or pull tabs - nothing! Secondly where ever you find sinkers if there is gold it should be right there in the neighbourhood. No gold today but we knew if it was there we were in the right place to find it!
So over a dozen sinkers in a 10 mtr x 10 mtr patch
A few clad coins, 3 x brown buggers, and a coin we first thought was a three pence ...
But it is even smaller than a three pence so I think we will need to clean this one up to see what it really is ...
And a earring and a chain which are both Junkers...
And now the sorry story of the day - today was the first time in over twelve months (and the very first time for both of us) that we had an altercation with another detectorist on the beach. We are both very disappointed. :|
When we arrived we spotted a fellow looter who was several hundred metres down the beach. As we approached the detecting area we could see his holes he didn't fill and his shovel trail lines. Bogan approached a few of the holes to find a target signal still in the hole. Yes, you guessed it, he was leaving his junk in the hole! I have a big problem with folks doing that, mostly because if they leave it behind we will find it again after the next tide, but I also pride ourselves on leaving an area better than we found it. Anyhow, we proceeded to detect and found coin and jewelry targets where he had been already so we knew what we were dealing with. About 45 minutes goes by and when I look up I see our "mate" getting closer to us. He managed to get in between us, two children in tow. The kids came close to me and said hello, I gave them a "howsitgoinmate" and continued to detect hoping they would go back to wherever they came from. I then saw the kids approach the other guy and thought ... "Good go bother him instead" but it turned out he was their father. A few minutes later I could hear him trying to yell to me - saying my detector was interfering with his. Not wanting to start anything, I ignored his whinging, and with my back turned toward him I kept detecting. A couple of more minutes before he appeared in my line of sight saying something which I could not hear. Took off a headphone ear and heard him again complaining about detector interference. I shrugged my shoulders and kept detecting. He moved on to Bogan now - and caught his attention. He started waffling on about how he was on the beach first and we were infringing on his workspace, and that we should be observing etiquette. Bogan brought up his junk and leaving it in the holes, and he says " I got both my kids with me, I can't do everything!" Well, blow me down, he keeps up with his lip so I thought I would now get involved. I said "you don't own the beach mate" - he made me repeat myself and then said we were lucky his kids were there or he would take it further.
Mind you - this guy is five foot five, dragging a garden spade around, and he wants to have a go with two guys over 6 foot with metal handed shovels in there hands?
I guess he was lucky his kids were there I would say....
We have had fellow looters detect within 10 feet of us and got along fine ... I guess we just found the dhead - our misfortune.
I hope this guy is not a member here - gives us all a bad reputation - there were beach goers witnessing the whole saga.
Night time is certainly more attractive now!
