C. Nyal de Kaye
New member
We have been away again. My wife wanted to go to one of our old gold haunts, but I was not feeling all that good, so we went to a spot we had heard about, but had never seen.
Arriving at the caravan park late in the afternoon we were surprised to discover that it was "closed for the winter and maintenance." The manager let us in anyway. As the park was closed we were the only people in the entire place. It was over 200 acres so we had a bit of room to move.
The first morning we ran into another inhabitant, a six foot Tiger snake just lying (standing? sitting? what is the right word?) there watching us. We left him alone and he did likewise.
We explored the local quite attractive country towns and started to enjoy ourselves. We even found an Op-Shop (charity shop) so my wife was very pleased about that and we added a few dollars to the local economy.
However the idea that there were 200 acres of caravanning/camping area all lying there vacant soon awakened our naturtal instincts: detecting.
We couldn't resist having a good swing of the coil and so we asked for permission. It was granted with some enthusiasm, I am happy to say. And so off we went.
Here is the result ....
[attachment 274666 GoldCoins2.jpg]
There is $428 in that little lot. We also found two nice silver rings, of no real value, and the usual collection of junk, great piles of it.
We think that we may go there again as we covered only a tiny portion of the park. We can't help but wonder how many more dollars are laying there just awaiting us.
Arriving at the caravan park late in the afternoon we were surprised to discover that it was "closed for the winter and maintenance." The manager let us in anyway. As the park was closed we were the only people in the entire place. It was over 200 acres so we had a bit of room to move.
The first morning we ran into another inhabitant, a six foot Tiger snake just lying (standing? sitting? what is the right word?) there watching us. We left him alone and he did likewise.
We explored the local quite attractive country towns and started to enjoy ourselves. We even found an Op-Shop (charity shop) so my wife was very pleased about that and we added a few dollars to the local economy.
However the idea that there were 200 acres of caravanning/camping area all lying there vacant soon awakened our naturtal instincts: detecting.
We couldn't resist having a good swing of the coil and so we asked for permission. It was granted with some enthusiasm, I am happy to say. And so off we went.
Here is the result ....
[attachment 274666 GoldCoins2.jpg]
There is $428 in that little lot. We also found two nice silver rings, of no real value, and the usual collection of junk, great piles of it.
We think that we may go there again as we covered only a tiny portion of the park. We can't help but wonder how many more dollars are laying there just awaiting us.
and find lots of coinies adding up to huge totals! 
Ma