lone wanderer

Australia is famous to international backpackers to come here to do a lot of partying and trash our beaches as this week happened near Sydney and the rubbish they left behind was disgusting. No way they could do this in most parts of the world without getting jail time. Mind you some of the local farm owners are not slow in raping some of the pretty pack packers and they are over exploited by these farm owners by paying below award wages specified by the government for backpackers. I stayed in Perth with my daughter for two weeks and she bought a house a few miles inland from the coast in a place called Elliston and over summer the place is muggy and infested with flies. She wanted to buy on the beach and this nearly led to a divorce. Near Perth we went to the Marina which has a shopping centre with curiosity shops, restaurants and cafes and a protected beach with shallow water ideal for kids. The weather was warm and pleasant with no flies. Would love to detect in North Queensland but the taipan snakes there are too numerous and you can hear them brushing against your tent at night. If bitten you have only 30 minutes but the goldfields which have the nuggets are are very remote and this is a death sentence unless your wife is a nurse and carries anti venom. You can't detect in winter like in Victoria and southern WA as Queensland is tropical and has no winter except in the very South of the state. My parents and I travelled to Europe when I was 5 and saw Egypt, the Mediterranean and the Baltic Sea. We travelled up and down the Eastern seaboard of Australia and finally bought a house in Melbourne. They got me into more scrapes than I care to remember and once when I was 5 they decided to take a shortcut off the main road to get to Cairns. They told me when we had to cross a channel and I stepped on something we thought was a log but turned out to be a sleeping crocodile. When we crossed this area of high grass we saw a sign with a skull and crossbones on the Cairns side.

I found a dry blowing site at Inkerman in Victoria but it was heavily infested with galvanised steel heavy wire netting in small half inch bits and gave it up. Should have detected the surrounding area. Downhill was the start of a long gully with hundreds of shallow holes but being close to a main track decided to look for more hidden diggings. Read a book in the 1980,s written by a detector operator-a Garret Deepseeker I think who included many maps of nugget patches with location of dry blowing dumps in the WA goldfields of Australia. He found many large nuggets in these piles and in total found an amazing 1200 ozs of gold in only a couple of years.

My old Whites 5000D a 1980 model Coinmaster with a 16 inch coil was very good at signalling the mineralisation and it never shut up and good enough at signalling gold nuggets even down to 7 grams at 3 to 4 inches and 2 ozs at 6 inches.Here we have mostly very high mineralisation.Unfortunately someone stole mine when we were moving house and it was the only detector I found large nuggets with because they were there and now its been all hammered.

Rob your teaching your sons well in the best classroom in the world-Mother Nature. When your in your rocking chair years from now you will realise you already found gold that day but which no gold can buy, the joy of sharing this great adventure we call life with your sons and a big smile will come over you....

From ancient times Wales was a leading supplier of tin for manufacturing bronze and weapons. Ships loaded with wine and olive oil were went from Constantinople which was then called Byzantium to brink back tin.Lets hope Wales can challenge China and Australia in the production of gold? If the gold is deep underground like in South Africa no detector in the world will pick it up.

What people are not aware of is the Impact is phenomenal in very highly mineralised ground and can be used anywhere on the planet except on the rim of a volcano.It is more versatile than any other detector with 12 modes and the COG mode was especially developed for the Impact for alkaline soils.It is very well balanced which offsets its disadvantage of being heavy to a degree.Anfibio is half a pound lighter. In inland arid regions where I use it being waterproof is not a big issue but in more wetter regions I would go for the Anfibio as I had the bad experience of my first detector being ruined as I tried to use it in the rain albeit with protective plastic covering but water has a talent of infiltrating unsealed devices. Have not tested the Anfibio in hot soils but it should be similar but would not buy it without some proof.Anfibio has the disadvantage of having to be charged from the mains but Impact can be used in remote areas simply by carrying a spare set of batteries. I have 8 rechargeable batteries which are charged from the car cigarette lighter.Anfibio has the option of being available also in a solely 14 Khz or solely 19 Khz frequency models which to me is is a great advantage as I only use 20 Khz and also makes these two models cheaper. The Anfibio has a limit available in larger coils, the AF 35 coil or 13.5 inch coil. Whilst the Impact can be fitted with the IM 45 which is a 15X17 inch coil.

PH All metal has a hot rock tone distinct from the low pitch ferrous tone.All you have to do to increase discrimination from 00 to 01. Great downhill from gold reefs where the ground is thick with hot rocks.All metal is great for finding very small targets down to 0.1 gram in low mineralised soils.All Metal however does not go deep and is best used for detecting shallow targets.The problem of false signals in very highly mineralised soil should be able to be minimised by increasing the isat setting from 01 to 03 in DI2 although I have not tried this yet.Tin and silver foil masked by setting the notch filter in the range 17 to 19 in DI2,or setting the tone break to 19 to give a ferrous tone in DI2 for foil and digging up the high tones so as to not miss any gold.or gold nuggets.I have found the strongest ID numbers in highly mineralised soil to be in DEEP mode and no intelligible ones in All Metal.DEEP is my favorite mode for hunting nuggets and works well in soils below 80 on the min. meter and the DI modes can easily handle 90 on the meter.I use DI2 in the more difficult soils.Nokta only recommend using DEEP mode in low to mild soil and this has always puzzled me.

Also great for people in aged care facilities who have lost their marbles.

Hi phrunt Nels have a range of 10 coils for each model of VLF detector from the BIG 15x17 inch to a very tiny 5x3 inch.I recently bought the Tornado coil 12x13 inch for the Impact although I wanted a 13.5 x13 inch coil but only coil in stock for the Impact from this European store.There is a 14x10.5 coil which I fancy for nugget detecting in the Golden Triangle. The Tornado goes 20% deeper but at 13 inch wide it is nearly twice as wide as the standard coil which should bring some advantages like much easier to locate targets. It is still very sensitive to nuggets smaller than 1 gram-rated 8.5/10 for locating small targets and can pick them up down to 8 inches deep in low mineralized soil.The Tornado is a good compromise in obtaining more depth but still suited in finding coins and similar sized objects.I was also very impressed by the quality.