I aways wanted to have a look over there but more for opal and other mineral specimens.
You are always welcome buddy but ya gotta watch the gay bois apparently.
Yes it’s a change going to spots where theres no gold - it means that you dont overdo it and move big boulders for nothing and you can just concentrate on drinking and things that go bang!
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Hi guys, Saturday I took advantage of the nice spring weather and went up a small local creek to chase some gold. We’ve has a major flood in the district not too long ago and I was hoping for some freshly exposed bedrock to detect. As it happens I only found one small area that had been uncovered. I got a fairly strong signal in this area under about a foot of water in a small bedrock hollow. In short order out popped this beautiful 3.8g nugget. Some sniping in the immediate area produced another 4g or so in about an hour. It’s nice when it’s that easy
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beautiful mate well done…!!!
Amazing; that is beautiful. Very well done!
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Went up the moonlight last weekend. Weather forecast not great but what’s a little bit of rain I thought…
Arrived at Anderson Flat and set up caravan and tent. Spent the afternoon detecting around and found…
Weather was great!! until the next day. Woke up in the morning to pouring rain and gale force winds. Winds got worse and worse until we thought about taking tent down, next thing the tent took itself down 
Packed up tent and decided we should bail as caravan now rocking a bit much for our liking. Drove down road to make sure all open only to find a massive tree over road. Okay, not going anywhere.
Winds were gusting 100kmph but thankfully dropped in afternoon.
Next day rivers all flooded so went up a small creek and found…
Had one more day and found another 0.7 grams which my mate has.
Altogether a fun trip if a bit wet. Now to fix the tent!
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Spent an afternoon doing some prospecting at the Raikaia Gorge, found what might be one of the richest depsoits in Canterbury!
Here is our cleanup
and a video up on the Sluicers of our trip
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A few bits for the GPX 6000 for a few hours detecting Saturday afternoon.
The bigger bit was under an old timers rock pile stacked on the bedrock but was still hiding down in a crevice in the bed rock.
Good luck out there
JW 
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wow nice chunky gold mate sterling effort…!!! well done you. that hand looks like its been in the water a while and yea that water is still very cold are those fingers frozen in that position or you still able to move them…good effort happy days
Nice going Mat, well earned from the look of it.
Good on you Matt. Well done. You did better than me again. At least I stayed dry. I did get hailed on though.
Best of luck out there
JW
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Good to be back on the River again after a wet and cold winter with some massive floods… which opened up heaps of new ground to work! Managed to find my biggest wee piece yet and its from an area that is supposed to just have fine gold as I’m miles away from the headwaters where the chunky stuff is. It’s done quite some travelling!
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Nice one mate, great looking bedrock and gold
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Looks good. Might be worth a snipe or some long handle shovelling in the water.
Cheers, definitely want to try some sniping just need to get a wetsuit. Brother has sniped this spot before with no luck, but the flood has opened up new ground to try so i reckon theres more pickers to be found
Saturdays effort for a few hours detecting with the GPX 6000
Sundays result after a bit of a marathon E bike mission to get into a spot. Took the stuffing out of me. 
But it kinda paid off. Wont be quitting my day job though.
Best of luck out there
JW
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nice one gav good work mate bring on the good weather and new season cant wait…!!