I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to test out the new Minelab Equinox 600 for a week. Since detecting in salt water has always been an issue for my X-Terra 705, I spent the week detecting on the beach. There was a lot of hype around the Equinox …
If you’ve been to Tocumwal then you have probably heard of the large Airbase that was there during WW II until the 1960’s. We managed to find some crown land that sits on an old piece of the airbase and took the X-Terras over it for the day. We got …
I’m currently traveling around the country and am always on the lookout for likely metal detecting sites. I found an old railway station in Victoria which is no longer active, the station itself is gone and the railway is now a walking/riding path. Looking at old photos of the station …
While traveling through country Victoria recently, I camped at a hotel in Gippsland which offered sites to passing travelers. The hotel had not been there long just 30 years or so, still, I was hoping I might find a few coins around it. Luckily there was no grass to speak …
We headed back out to the old farmhouse with the X-Terra’s for another day’s detecting to see what else had been missed. There were 2 old dumping spots near the ruins which we went over and in between the junk managed to extract some nice coins and old curios. Someone …
We headed out to an old campsite today with the X-Terra 705’s. The area was used for school camps as far as I’m aware and was still in use until about 15 years ago. Today all the buildings have been removed and there is a lot of trash left lying …
