Seems very quite on the gold finding front.
A few more rats & mice.
Getting a bit grim
No shortage of shot gun pellets though. 
A few more from Sunday just gone.
JW 
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Easter Monday finds from two shovels under the right boulder.
Got to love the West Coast blue bottom.
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A few days at a public fossicking site before the floods arrived and destroyed my hole. I hope who ever finds my swept away bucket can make good use of it.
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Floods… what floods?
Nice show of colour.
JW
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They are those odd things that after 40mm of rain the creek you could cross on one day cant be crossed the next.
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Is that the black sluice? I have a caledonian for clean ups, but actually works really well as a regular sluice as well, nice and light and surprisingly tough…
Yep the big unit. I like the rubber riffle mat covering the flare, good capture and visibility.
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Today’s effort, using dream mat, unclassified.
About 2.5 hrs all up. Jeez if the price keeps going up would you consider chucking in the day job?
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How much weight of gold? When you say 2.5 hours all up, is that just the time you spent shoveling through your box? There is also the time & money spent in getting from your home & back again & also the time getting to your spot & setting up your box. So your 2.5 hours & the gold got may as well call it a day. Because if you chucked in your day job then any time out looking for gold during a day is a day lost from your day job that obviously will pay you what ever it is you get paid for a days work. You may spend a day out looking for gold & get nothing. You also have the shit weather days that will be down time with floods etc. It isn’t all lolly pops & rainbows.
JW
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aint that the truth , the way to become a millionare out of gold is start as a billionare
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Love it, we must all be nuts 
All good points kiwi. I am lucky to live 20 minutes from gold So 2.5 hours is getting set up and shoveling and packing up. Two hours digging is about what I can handle these days.
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Ha ha, I can relate to that.
My last few weekend efforts have only been about 3 hours of detecting on the day. Usually later in the afternoon but managed a few bit each time. Just an excuse to get out there with any gold being a bonus.
Bit of gorse bush clearing opening up a crevice that gave me a signal.
Getting a bit cooler these days & this was at 4pm
Bit of an E bike in to a spot Saturday just gone.
But was rewarded.
Nothing massive, like this sucker.
But the small ones all add up & at $180 odd a gram.
Good luck out there
JW
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Checked out a creek id done before after the floods and got a new signal a nice 1.1 grammer on the monster. No other gold found but nice to get out in-between the bad weather.
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Nice one man,talk about weather alright!
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Took the GPX 6000 with Coiltek 10x5 Goldhawk coil for a walk yesterday arvo to a Queenstown spot. A mate of mine, yes I do have one, had got himself a Garrett Axiom. Was more or less gifted to him as it had a bit of damage done to it & all he had to pay for was the shipping from America. He fixed it & was keen to take it for a walk. Probably the only Axiom in the country. Here is his result.
Garrett Axioms Maiden Voyage In New Zealand - Detector Prospector Forum - DetectorProspector.com
My result minus any in field pics as I left my phone at home on the charger. 
Not a fortune but better than a poke in the eye with a blunt stick.
JW
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