Mick in Dubbo
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Just had a look at the river flowing past the end of our street (the Macquarie). It's now in flood and has just covered one of 2 bridges in town. This bridge is the main road from Melbourne to Brisbane.
near it, is my favourite spot which has a regular market. Unfortunately, the site in question is starting to go under as well.
And to think that a Christmas festival was to be held there as well. Speaking of the one that got away. There will literally have fish swimming over it for the next little while. The dam down steam of here hold 4 times the volume of Sydney harbour when it's at a 100% (of irrigation needs for 12 months) is now at 140%!, filling up 30% in the last 24 hours. It goes over the top at around 148%. Things will get interesting. Although there will bill no major problems here, there is major flooding to occur downstream. Work is shut down for 4 days, so I'll be able to get a couple of hunts in at least, if it doesn't rain.
I did manage a quick hunt in Sydney at the week end which netted $22 in modern stuff and a Chinese coin that is dated 1722 to 1735. My oldest coin find to date and it predates white settlement by 60 years! (I wasn't using my Garrett machine though. I did use the Pro pointer to find it though.
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Mick Evans.


I did manage a quick hunt in Sydney at the week end which netted $22 in modern stuff and a Chinese coin that is dated 1722 to 1735. My oldest coin find to date and it predates white settlement by 60 years! (I wasn't using my Garrett machine though. I did use the Pro pointer to find it though.

Mick Evans.