For several years I used to spend a couple of weeks in Majorca every January, compared to here, I'd describe it as warm. Very warm.
Nice photos. I noticed you keep tabs on the birds where you are, I saw a proper Goldfinch today over here, none of these lesser Goldfinch pretenders you have over there!
I try to take photos of them. I only have a smart phone so it is hard sometimes to get good photos which is why the ones of bald eagles and such are really just little dots in the sky. My favorite are the American Dippers which swim under water in the creek where I gold pan. They are cool to watch.
I tweeted a couple of times that they should have come here to Florida. 74 (F) degrees here today. It would be nice if they came here in the pre season.
[video=youtube;wiAnhfZ9HKI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiAnhfZ9HKI[/video] Did you see this big bastard on the news over there?
Yea I saw that. The biggest nugget I have found was worth about $100. So you can imagine how small that is. The largest nugget ever found was found where I pan. It was 54 pounds. The guy who found it also found a 25 pound nugget that day. Pshh I bet he had a buddy with him who said something like ah toss it back that nugget is to small.
Ever thought of the metal detector route? I once found about £25 in notes down the Boulevard in Hull- my biggest find. Not proud to say I kept them as I was jobless at the time.
People do go the detector route. The guy at the mining store in town is always trying to get me to buy one. I am not sure how it would work really. About every pan I do has gold in it and I dont know if the settings would know the difference between a little gold and a nugget. I just do it for fun really so I decided to just stick to my little hand shovel and my pans. To get a lot of gold you need a sluce or a small dredge. The sluce and dredge options require that you get a mining claim. I am far to lazy for all that. I just like going into the state park for free and finding a shady spot next to a creek.
We have dippers too, not in the Hull area but they are in other parts of Yorkshire like the Dales where the Tour de France is going, very unique birds. Funny how you get the same types of things thousands of miles away but a bit different. The only thing we don't have is gold deposits unfortunately!
I know people who have pulled valuable stuff out of the fields round Hull, items worth double figure thousands which are now in museums. Roman- Ancient Brit- Celtic-Viking-Saxon- we got it all round here.
They had a show on TV that I watched a while back where they went to the Themes and waited tell the tide got low and found a lot of artifacts. It looked pretty cool, although it seemed like they spent the whole time being cold and covered in mud. Not the same thing as sitting on a rock in the sun pretending to try and strike it rich.
We had the lot through here, Romans, Vikings, Normans. I reckon they will make a massive find one day in the area probably where you would least expect it.
Could be! I'd get a metal detector myself but knowing my luck I wouldn't strike gold but would hit an unexploded WW2 bomb or something instead.
There,s a couple of old blokes on our allotment site, who have started metal detecting the,ve only been at it a few years, but have found some amazing stuff. They seem to get a lot of pleasure researching the history of their finds. When they first started their main obstacle was getting permission to land etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Bonhomme_Richard_(1765) The Battle of Flamborough Head. Every summer a Septic team comes over trying to locate this wreck dating from the War of Independence. They've spent a lot of money on it over the years and will continue to do so until they find it.
