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  • Costa Rica Riches

    Costa Rica Riches

    The Envision Festival in Uvita Costa Rica is a gathering of young earthy party people. My wife and I happened to be in the area 3 days after the closing of this yearly festival. We brought out the X-T…

  • My First Day, My First Find

    My First Day, My First Find

    After years of wanting to buy a detector and head down to the Victorian gold fields, I finally pulled my finger out and got a 2nd hand Eureka Gold. (thought I would start basic before going for a GPX…

  • WOW

    WOW

    One word “WOW” this metal detector just keeps surprising the "hell out of me". Going on to a farm that the three clubs on the Island have done for the past 6 years, I knew that the finds w…

  • Bracelet Lost for 60 Years

    Bracelet Lost for 60 Years

    I was at a local middle school that was a grade 1-12 school back in the day. I have been here several times before and found several silver coins. On Friday the 24th January I made a find that was mo…

  • E-TRAC Scores 112 Silver Coins in 17 Days!

    E-TRAC Scores 112 Silver Coins in 17 Days!

    I had business in an unfamiliar town, and researched potential places to detect while I was there. I threw my E-TRAC and gear in the car, and headed off. The first site on my list was closed, and whe…

  • Minelab Magic

    Minelab Magic

    Thanks for the certificate, cap, and bottle opener much appreciated. The results are from two hunts down at a local beach. It was a cool afternoon so I decided to put in an hour and a half. Sometimes…

  • Making the Club Proud

    Making the Club Proud

    This was another Sunday dig with timeline MDC from Birmingham. Went for a dig in Shrewsbury with 50 members. After two hours of detecting I was fed up, no coin, no artifact. Nothing except a few piec…

  • Minelab Excalibur II Pays For Itself

    Minelab Excalibur II Pays For Itself

    Just a couple of lines and photos from last week's trip to Spain. The Excalibur II was amazing, knocking out all the hair clips and the small cent coins which are a pest. All in all a great week, than…