We don't start our 2010 weekend and mid week trips till March. January and February are just far too hot to be taking people out into the bush detecting.
The link below will give you the information about our first weekend.

**Please note there are no places left on our March 20th/21st weekend, all places have now been filled. Sorry if you have missed out.

We have no places left between now and mid April when we head off to do our big Western Australian trips. As soon as we arrange some dates for when we get back, they will be posted here.
We have many bookings for our one and two day Victorian trips, and unfortunately don't have any more places available, before we head off to Western Australia. If you would like to be on our mailing list to receive the latest information from us and the new Victorian dates please drop us an email or write or phone.

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Over this past weekend 13th and 14th March we have had some first timers out with us in the Bendigo Golfields.
Everyone had the best weekend with all finding their first ever gold! 100% success rate, we were very happy for them all.
Probably the best find for the weekend was by Lyn from Melbourne.
Within 5 minutes of starting she got her first target. On the edge of a washed out creek bed at 12 inches (30 cm) was a beautiful 2.4 gram speci. Of course the weekend before saw some record rainfalls and had washed lots of dirt away.
The picture below shows a very happy Lyn.



This is our group from the Bendigo weekend, all were successful in finding gold, well done Andre, Lyn, Linda, Yann and Adrian. That's Ronda from GPA on the left.

We have just recently completed a Victorian training day in the Whipstick Forest near Bendigo. The picture below, shows some of the group standing around a detector hole a very deep detector hole!!!


That's Tim, Ronda(GPA), Lexie and Butch
I've been detecting for a long time and this is honestly the deepest detector hole I have ever seen dug.
Tim, a first time detectorist heard a faint broad signal and called us over to have a listen. After taking a few inches off the top it was decided it was indeed a target, a very very deep target!!
Using our standard pick we were only able to get down 20" and by the sound of it there was quite some distance to go.
We went and got the crow bar and bigger pick(a much bigger pick)!!
Tim and myself were the two biggest people there and when the hole got too deep to use the pick to scrape out the dirt. Tim and I were down on our stomachs, scraping out the dirt with our hands.
The target by this stage was screaming out, making pin pointing near impossible. I have a special trick to pin point when using a mono coil, and this allowed us to determine we were on target and a little ways to go. The target was still in the bottom of the hole, not hiding on the side somewhere!
We were nearly to our limit with our finger tips when the crow bar heard that all to familiar sound of metal on metal, a sheet of rusty metal!
Tim was on a surfaced area and the depth was due to decades of rain and run off building up the ground level and covering the old timer's original diggings to the bed rock(and the rubbish).
Without a tape measure I'm guessing the depth of the hole at nearly 4 foot. The following photo's give you some idea of it's depth and the mongrel rotten piece of rusty tin that was sitting at the bottom of it.
That's Ronda in the hole and Tim holding the deepest hole prize!
The one thing it did prove to us was just how good the 4500 and goldstalker coil combination is.







The day wasn't all rusty iron and rubbish, both Tim and Lexie did find gold, congratulations.


These are our GPX4500 machines. This is what you will be taught to use when you come on a training day or weekend with us. Unless of course you have your own, and then we can increase your skills and teach you what you want to learn during your time with us.