Well finally ~ managed to get out again ~ this time with ol' Mate Terry ~ who has moved to Mareeba ~ which is far better situation and a mere 40 Km form our place.
We are hoping this will be a regular event now ~ but as I speak the weather closed in the very next and has degenerated to even more rain and miserable ~conditions.
So we agreed to meet up and head off to check out a colonial Pub site for assessment~
We agreed that to access the site we have to do battle the Grass is < 3 Meters> high ~
But we decided to spend around an hour fossicking the cleared areas~ in the hope we could find a probable camp site where the colonials camped before statementing cross over ~
I couped a 1947 Penny early and Terry came up with a gold Coins!
So no QV's or relics . We are both using Equinox 800 and both have an after market CoilTek. I am loving this 14*9 as coupled with the software I set up ~ it amazes just how well it can discriminately amongst a horse of trash and scrap ~ even brass and copper~ such as a 1000 tent eyelets.
We then moved on to old stomping ground which I have hammered for years but Terry had Never seen previously.
We worked around and tread some ground ~ working several of the camp sites and rubbish dumps, including the same one I have found to have been discovered and crudely excavated.
Despite the tip being ravaged still not sure what they were endeavouring to achieve as we retrieved a number relics and Bottles !!
We are still not sure what they were doing as we dug a number of "usual suspects " in webbing and military fittings. The sheer number of bottles is staggering ~ so perplexed as to what they were actually doing!
So anyway we decided to call stumps around 16:30 and we were pleasantly surprised neither of us faded at all day ~ has to be those extended smokos we are renowned for ~
I was also pleasantly surprised to find that the relics that I bought home came up a trick considering that many came out of a cook off/ Burn dump~
Terry's total fo rthe day ~
Richmond Breweries Vitoria.
Tasmanian Breweries,
Knackered by day's end ~ so decided to drop the bits into the ACV over night ~ took several vat but they came uap real trick.
Clean up results well pleased as they were mostly retrieved rubbish pit/s and even fire pit!
Australian artillery personnel with a field gun ('25 pounder') in a revetment in Bougainville. April 27, 1945
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