Ahhhh Them Where The Days....

I do have to say but, i miss the good old days prospecting in vic & sth australia, just load up the car,drive to a spot,and
let her rip... to flamin easy..
Of course i'm talking about the box ironbark forrests where you didnt need permission or a gun, you could
camp there and find gold

Tarnagulla was one of my favourite areas, so was castlemaine and beaufort and wedderburn/witchitella,
it was just to flamin easy back then, now days ive got lease permissions,20A's,forms,GPS data,Tengraph
Mindex,Wamex,600klm minimum drive,and mad bush s (inc me)

Oh yeah! them where the days.

But you know what ??

I wouldnt trade any of my past and current prospecting life for quids
The lovely bush, the great folks we get to meet, and just roaming around with a detector
without any fascist millitary junta asking at the point of a tommy gun - "papers" .

Long live the Prospector
Long live APLA & PMAV


Pete in WA

Lets face it, there aint nothing wrong with taking a walk
with pick n paper in hand either, feels natural..

G'day Pete.

Just the smell of the forest,the variety of wildlife and the isolation away from the rat race,heavenly splendor I call it Pete.There are Nations that would give an arm and a leg to have what we've got here,that's why we should never take anything for granted in life.Bare bu**ed we were born and and bare bu**ed we're destined to leave this world of ours,taking only the memories with us,until we're just a memory ourselves.So many times I've heard people saying,ah where am i going to go,whats there to see and do out there,waste of my time,to the point where they convince themselves to no adventure at all.I say what a waste of existence.Is not the thrill of adventure,life in itself? So lets all concentrate on doing and getting the best we can out of life,for time waits for no one and the saying can't be any truer "People won't understand what they've got until they've lost it".

Cheers kon61.

How blessed we are to live in this lucky country,the freedom we enjoy.I know not all agree but in some ways we must be responsible for the life we make.

kon61 wrote: G'day Pete.

Just the smell of the forest,the variety of wildlife and the isolation away from the rat race,
Cheers kon61.

Just don't breathe in near Pete when he's out with the pick & paper.
Geronimo.

Cheers kon61.

Hey! Geronimo

Mine are rose petals dropped from heaven bro




Kon61:

Great words mate and so tru, i think the name for those types is "Oxygen thieves"

i especially love when we take a breather from swinging the wand and just take it all in on a beautiful
day out bush, ahhhhhh could life get any better i ask you


Pete in WA

beepinpete wrote:

I do have to say but, i miss the good old days prospecting in vic & sth australia, just load up the car,drive to a spot,and
let her rip... to flamin easy..
Of course i'm talking about the box ironbark forrests where you didnt need permission or a gun, you could
camp there and find gold

Tarnagulla was one of my favourite areas, so was castlemaine and beaufort and wedderburn/witchitella,
it was just to flamin easy back then, now days ive got lease permissions,20A's,forms,GPS data,Tengraph
Mindex,Wamex,600klm minimum drive,and mad bush s (inc me)

Oh yeah! them where the days.

But you know what ??

I wouldnt trade any of my past and current prospecting life for quids
The lovely bush, the great folks we get to meet, and just roaming around with a detector
without any fascist millitary junta asking at the point of a tommy gun - "papers" .

Long live the Prospector
Long live APLA & PMAV


Pete in WA

Lets face it, there aint nothing wrong with taking a walk
with pick n paper in hand either, feels natural..

Pete i hear what your saying ..... cheers

Well you had all better make the most of it. I heard in Europe they are thinking of digging up Hitler and letting him loose again in a different form. So watch out folks.

I have only been detecting for a shade under 10 years,so I have to compare your comments to old fishing spots. Back `in tha day` the fish were always bigger,fatter and there were stacks of them
I reckon gold spots could be the same......
Still,I never leap out of my bed at home the same way I do out of my swag,feeling fit enough to tackle a Roo or two,no matter how many deep holes I had dug the day before

Bringing back memories Pete, Tarnagulla, Dunolly etc, in a time when it was peaceful out bush, no rules ( errr maybe just a few ) plenty of gold and genuine prospectors.
Made me dig up an old photo of me out in the bush with my trusty GT16000. Must have been in my early twentys, long time ago. I'm pretty sure it was taken in Dunolly, Sydenham track, of course you wouldn't recognise it know after 20 odd years of hammering. Even the snakes were nicer then, hence no need for Gaitors .

Didn't know they had colour photos back then....

Digitally ehanced photo Panther

TheGoldenChild wrote:Must have been in my early twentys, long time ago.

Hi TGC, Thats when the skin would have been soft, strong and responsive...

TheGoldenChild wrote:Dunolly, Sydenham track, of course you wouldn't recognise it know after 20 odd years of hammering.

These nugs are what was left over >> the last tiny bits....so some of that is my fault..

G'day ARARAT

I could tell you what was a hell lot more responsive back then but this is a public forum

So it was you who raided my patch all that time ago . Bet you got those from the surfacing out that way
But you didn't get it all, sorry to disappoint you but I got a 15.5 grammer there late last year .
You must have missed that one.

TGC

Great photo man, yeah ive been up sydenham track many a time, no doubt you would of been in here a few times too



Used to be a full on group waiting out the front for opening time, all looking secretive and whispering
to each other

Is the flett gold museum still open across the road ??

pete in WA

That looks like Finders Pete, hired my first detector there a minelab 15000 I think, sadly no longer there, but the museum across the road is still going.

TheGoldenChild wrote:G'day ARARAT But you didn't get it all, sorry to disappoint you but I got a 15.5 grammer there late last year . You must have missed that one.

How are you Manny >> I left it there for you - didn't you see the inscription

Cheers
A

Fine Paul, gotta catch up soon for another outing.
Ye I have been wondering for years what "Dig here, regards Paul" meant inscribed on the tree stump next to the hole, thanks for clearing it up pal

Didnt you get the secret on lost dunolly patches also ??

You know what, stuff me! i always wanted to find a "dickhead" token too but was to
tied up just acting like one most days back then

Hey Manny - Young , lean & mean back then bro !!

I now have photographic proof of you swinging a small coil

Great photo mate

Cheers
gully hunter

Ok guys forget about me and lets stick to the original topic.
Would like to see more input and photos from yesteryear, brings back nice memories to us old timers

Back in those days Glen you didn't have much choice on the VLF's, even thou I did manage to get a HUGE 11" coil for it later on

Hi pete, sorry, it mite b good thing to remove pic as it could bring un-intended offence, i dont mean lib/lab thing either.
Doug

"Pic deleted as it is offensive. "

Jeff

"i especially love when we take a breather from swinging the wand and just take it all in on a beautiful
day out bush, ahhhhhh could life get any better i ask you"
When I take a breather , I light up a gasper

This post has been edited and what i wrote now makes no sense, neither will the next post below this one.

maybe there should've been a photo shop of Yeltsin in stead

Great comeback GSGPX !!!!!

Cheers
gully hunter

beepinpete wrote:Hey! Geronimo

Mine are rose petals dropped from heaven bro
Pete in WA

Sure gives a whole new meaning to the saying, "stop & smell the roses !"
Slainte, Geronimo.

thanks beepinpete & jeffgold

> i especially love when we take a breather from swinging the wand and just take it all in on a beautiful
day out bush, ahhhhhh could life get any better i ask you"

I went for a drive on the weekend and in less than an hour from where I live I was suddenly sitting in the middle of a rain forest on the top of a mountain up at Jollys lookout on one of the tourist trails with only the bellbirds keeping me company. It was great being in amongst nature in all its splendour.

Then a group of teenages came running past on the tourist track with their ipods on, gameboys in hand and began making a general nuiscance of themselves, they really just dont get it.

So I left them to it and went for a 1.5 km trek through the rainforest off the tourist track instead where they wouldnt fear to tread for fear of getting their designer sandshoes dirty.

beepinpete wrote:

Didnt you get the secret on lost dunolly patches also ??

You know what, stuff me! i always wanted to find a "dickhead" token too but was to
tied up just acting like one most days back then

Tony Mills reckons he and some mates found half a bucket of the bl@#dy things.

The museum is well worth a visit just to see the gun and rifle collection.
Even better if you can catch Stephen Barnham on duty there. He has written several
excellent instructional manuals about detecting and panning. He is also PMAV's historian.

Robert