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A successful trip overseas with the ATX & CTX3030:video:
- Thread starter dmnz
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doc holiday
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Very nice---send more.
A brief trip summary!
As you will have seen from the link above....
Spent 7 days travelling around the island, which some of you will know was hit by a massive tidal wave back in 2009. The sand structure is unusual with some beaches with very, very deep sand. There is also a great deal of hot rocks, volcanic rocks, so, it was lucky to take both the ATX and the CTX.
Find wise - averaged 1 gold ring / day. In total around 20 rings (silver, titanium, tungsten carbide etc also).
Most of the rings appeared to be old drops, so deep they are certainly prior to the 2009 tidal wave. Also managed to give the beaches a clean of many items of rubbish, spoons, forks, cans etc. Found a ton of local coins, 99 percent no longer spendable as the currency has changed locally.
Beach access is 'limited' as the local families own the land down to the water - so in many cases had to pay for access to the beach and carefully explain what I intended to do to the local families. Aside one or two incidents (including one with the local village drunk) the people are super friendly! Most of my coin finds, especially the spendable coins had been donated to the local kids.
The trip was certainly hard out - at least 6 hours / day in the water and overall very hard work. It is not a super populated island.
Interestingly I know other detectorists had operated in the area so tried to focus on old or no longer existing beach fales. Or areas that had been popular before 2009.
In all 7 gold rings....
- large plain 9ct band. Close to fitting two fingers!
- smaller female 9ct ring with tiny diamonds or CZ
- smaller female 9ct as above
- very nice, old 9ct ring with three rubies.... Need to clean and appears old
-14ct decent band, a very nice ring
- 18ct, appears to be Korean gold, Very nice!
-18ct, massive ring! 18.x grams!!!! The best of the trip!
As you will have seen from the link above....
Spent 7 days travelling around the island, which some of you will know was hit by a massive tidal wave back in 2009. The sand structure is unusual with some beaches with very, very deep sand. There is also a great deal of hot rocks, volcanic rocks, so, it was lucky to take both the ATX and the CTX.
Find wise - averaged 1 gold ring / day. In total around 20 rings (silver, titanium, tungsten carbide etc also).
Most of the rings appeared to be old drops, so deep they are certainly prior to the 2009 tidal wave. Also managed to give the beaches a clean of many items of rubbish, spoons, forks, cans etc. Found a ton of local coins, 99 percent no longer spendable as the currency has changed locally.
Beach access is 'limited' as the local families own the land down to the water - so in many cases had to pay for access to the beach and carefully explain what I intended to do to the local families. Aside one or two incidents (including one with the local village drunk) the people are super friendly! Most of my coin finds, especially the spendable coins had been donated to the local kids.
The trip was certainly hard out - at least 6 hours / day in the water and overall very hard work. It is not a super populated island.
Interestingly I know other detectorists had operated in the area so tried to focus on old or no longer existing beach fales. Or areas that had been popular before 2009.
In all 7 gold rings....
- large plain 9ct band. Close to fitting two fingers!
- smaller female 9ct ring with tiny diamonds or CZ
- smaller female 9ct as above
- very nice, old 9ct ring with three rubies.... Need to clean and appears old
-14ct decent band, a very nice ring
- 18ct, appears to be Korean gold, Very nice!
-18ct, massive ring! 18.x grams!!!! The best of the trip!
Very nice hunt. Well processed video you put together. Which of the rings did the ATX sniff out?
Video made on the plane mostly with the iPhone! Amazing what you can do today versus a few years ago. To be honest this trip most of the time was the CTX - primarily due to the shear amount of rubbish from the tsunami (and the hot rock). The ATX was used after the initial few days - once a lot of the rubbish was identified / clean areas found. Also forgot to mention that conditions for detecting had not been great due to very strong winds and rough wave motion. At one beach it was truly like being in a washing machine (blowing around in circles)!
Also - no scoops - did not want to damage any coral etc so was fanning the sand, sometimes for 10 minutes to find a target (collapsing sand)
Also - no scoops - did not want to damage any coral etc so was fanning the sand, sometimes for 10 minutes to find a target (collapsing sand)
Similar to my hunts......the lakes get cleared mostly of the junk and shallow targets, then I use a pulse induction detector to get the remaining targets. And by the way....welcome to spring! It was 3 degrees C / 37 degrees F. this morning in Edmonton. We have has some frost warnings already this year. Our autumn, your spring.
Grilled Scallops
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Nice!! In my opinion, you do just as well if not better back home though. Sounds like a really fun trip!