A couple of day I opened a thread about hiding to do metal detecting. This weekend I decided to go in a busy public park to do metal detecting and see how things were going to go. A colleague told me of this big city park where she is taking her dog walking. So I decided to go there. I never went to this place before. It is a very big park. There is a big public swimming pool, a baseball field, a soccer field, a volleyball field, a big kid playground, three tennis courts and plenty walking paths.
My first day, Saturday, I arrived in mid-morning. There were many people but the place was far from being crowded. It was a nice sunny and warm day. I spotted my first potential problem...The ground crew were there mowing the lawn, I could see mowing tractors everywhere and worker with weed eaters working the ground. I told myself "darn...I am going to get kicked out of the place as soon as they see me digging holes in the ground..."
To put all the chances on my side, I did dress clean, with beige shorts with matching shirt and clean running shoes. I started to metal detect around the spectator benches near the soccer field, as well in the adjacent dirt parking lot. To my surprise I did not get bother once by any of the ground crew. After an hour or so I notice someone approaching me and talking to me. I removed my earphones. It was a nice looking woman. She asked me if it was metal detecting I was doing? I answered in the affirmative. She asked me what exactly I was looking for. I told her I was looking for old coins. I showed her the hand full of pennies I found so far (it was a pretty slim picking so far). She ask me if I could find gold with my Ace 250. After explaining her that my machine could find big nuggets of gold and jewelry but it was not a gold prospecting machine. She told me she did get a gold panning dish once but finding no one to go with her she did not do much gold prospecting. My mind was churning as last winter I bought a Garrett Deluxe gold panning kit and did not yet had a chance to try it much. I was considering the probable implications and ramifications of asking her to explore the possibility of doing gold prospecting together.
But the opportunity passed and she wished me good luck with my search. After another hour I was tired and went back home.
Later that night, I called my girlfriend (the ramifications I was talking about ...
) As usual when I told her I only got 27 pennies out of my trip, I was met by a long silence, followed by a change of subject.. Of course I did not told her about my meeting with the nice lady....
This was day 1. I think it went very well other than the slim picking of 27 pennies.
My first day, Saturday, I arrived in mid-morning. There were many people but the place was far from being crowded. It was a nice sunny and warm day. I spotted my first potential problem...The ground crew were there mowing the lawn, I could see mowing tractors everywhere and worker with weed eaters working the ground. I told myself "darn...I am going to get kicked out of the place as soon as they see me digging holes in the ground..."
To put all the chances on my side, I did dress clean, with beige shorts with matching shirt and clean running shoes. I started to metal detect around the spectator benches near the soccer field, as well in the adjacent dirt parking lot. To my surprise I did not get bother once by any of the ground crew. After an hour or so I notice someone approaching me and talking to me. I removed my earphones. It was a nice looking woman. She asked me if it was metal detecting I was doing? I answered in the affirmative. She asked me what exactly I was looking for. I told her I was looking for old coins. I showed her the hand full of pennies I found so far (it was a pretty slim picking so far). She ask me if I could find gold with my Ace 250. After explaining her that my machine could find big nuggets of gold and jewelry but it was not a gold prospecting machine. She told me she did get a gold panning dish once but finding no one to go with her she did not do much gold prospecting. My mind was churning as last winter I bought a Garrett Deluxe gold panning kit and did not yet had a chance to try it much. I was considering the probable implications and ramifications of asking her to explore the possibility of doing gold prospecting together.
But the opportunity passed and she wished me good luck with my search. After another hour I was tired and went back home.Later that night, I called my girlfriend (the ramifications I was talking about ...
) As usual when I told her I only got 27 pennies out of my trip, I was met by a long silence, followed by a change of subject.. Of course I did not told her about my meeting with the nice lady....This was day 1. I think it went very well other than the slim picking of 27 pennies.