Mike54

G'day Dave, I joined up on here the other day and good to see you are here as well. Will be good to see your new book when it comes out can't wait and I hope that you and the crew have a good season this year. . All the best to you and your family. Cheers. Mike.

Thanks to all for your kind replies and hopefully we will add more this year. PS we have been going over to WA since 2007 Cheers. Mike.

G'day JW (bro), yes I joined the other day, there's some good reading over here and some great people as well. Thanks for the welcome to bro. Cheers. Mike.

G'day All, thanks Mitchel for this great thread. I thought I would share this pic of my very first gold pour, a nice 1oz ingot.

Thanks for sharing these vids and thanks for the welcome idahogold. I found a 6grm Nuggy there many years ago when my mate first took me out there. Cheers. Mike.

G'day All, here are my finds from our trip to WA last year, using my GPZ7000.

Nice finds again Enio and yes they are cute little critters. We have one that hangs around our place here. We had to move one off the road in WA a couple of years ago, not to mention the stumpy tail blue tongue lizards we have had to move off the roads over there and here in Vic. Great pics by the way thanks for sharing. Cheers. Mike.

Thanks Steve and Enio, yes i know what you mean and thanks for the welcomes. Cheers. Mike.

G'day Enio, you and the SDC2300 are No.1 great little nuggies. cheers. Mike.

G'day Steve & All, it all started when I was very young, my Dad would take us camping, to a little Town called Heathcote in central Victoria in Australia. Where I would spend most of my time down at the creek panning, that was how I became hooked to this great hobby. Over the years I built my own rocker cradle and Various sluices. Then technology took a big leap into the electronic prospecting side of things and I ended up buying my first metal detector. It was a little Garret ground hog (international S.3) (which I still have today) it ran on 2x9volt batteries. With this little detector I found my first multi gram nuggy and many more followed. As the newer technology came out I/we would update till finally my current GPZ7000. Thanks All for reading my story on how I started out in this great hobby in search of the elusive yellow. Cheers to All. Mike.