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| Pooks Road Park, Ranui, |
I hit two more parks today on a overcast, damp and humid day. First up was Pooks Road park which proved very rewarding with $8.60 of spending, most just sitting in the deep bark and most in good nick. Nothing else other than tabs, bottle tops, nails and trash.
I was there for about an 50 minutes and it was good to get so many targets. On a recount it seems I found something nearly every 60 seconds I was there. None of which I had to dig more than a couple of inches and my powerful speaker magnet proved invaluable at saving time. The ten cent coins and rusty iron nails are hard to see in the brown bark but the magnet plucks them out straight away.
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| The Spending |
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| Pooks Trove, Treasure & Trash |
The next park up was the Robert Knox Memorial Park. A Park on a main road but quite remote. The pickings were few and far between and the weed mat was very close to the surface, the metal pins giving off too many signals. The equipment was mostly constructed of metal pipes which also made it difficult identify target signals. I had done about half the park when the rain came and I decided to call it a day. The proceeds adding up to another $1.30 spending, a jean button, a small plastic heart and a crusty metal seal of some kind. On getting home and examining the seal a bit closer it seemed to have a pattern imprinted on it. After a good clean the seal turned into a ring. A very big ring. A thumb ring perhaps. Not precious, brass maybe, but a good find, Anyway a nice surprise to cap off another interesting adventure.
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| The Bob Knox Memorial take |
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| From ugly duckling to cygnet ring |
The parks always seem to produce a few dollars and the odd piece of jewelery but now the rain has come the ground will soften which will make for easier digging. The ground has been like rock for so long. We have a list of sites, some historical, to visit that will hopefully keep us busy over the winter months. There is also the storm ravaged beaches to keep an eye on so we have lot's to look forward to.
To sum up today's effort a total of $9.90 spending and a nice ring.
See you out there.
