New to Australia and looking for a hunting partner

[Average Joe]

Welcome mate, some great finds there!

 

[cormorant]

Hey Trashpicker, thanks heaps for the pics , welcome and good luck be with you . by the way are those bottle caps of the glass type ?
Cheers Colin

 

[BigSam]

Welcome mate! Great finds, I bet there was some planning involved! Be a different scenery in the states to here, different sorts of wildlife etc, plenty of rattlers where you hunt?
Regards,
BigSam

 

[Trashpicker]

Hey Trashpicker, thanks heaps for the pics , welcome and good luck be with you . by the way are those bottle caps of the glass type ?
Cheers Colin

Hi Colin
Yes they are glass bottle stoppers. I enjoy finding them while digging for metal targets. I have collected a number more since I made the display. I will up size the frame at some point and add the new ones. I included a very nice purple stopper i found in a ghost town.
Thanks for looking

 

[Trashpicker]

Welcome mate! Great finds, I bet there was some planning involved! Be a different scenery in the states to here, different sorts of wildlife etc, plenty of rattlers where you hunt?
Regards,
BigSam

Big Sam
yes there are rattle snakes in the ghost towns!! As long as you know they are around and don't put your hand where you cannot see, you will be OK. being aware of your surroundings is how you stay safe...

 

[axeman]

The rattlers, wonder how many detectors or their owners have been bitten by these. Where I live we have king browns and tiapans, both very quick and deadly. The golden rule is don't go shifting anything with your hands, use a long stick and gently move whatever it is and be careful stepping over logs and rocks. Almost forgot about the poor old red bellied black, also poisonous but takes a bit more to stir up then the others.
Mick
PS: Love the bottle stoppers

 

[Paydirt]

Hi Trashpicker, plenty of good relic fossicking/ghost towns around Kalgoorlie WA as well. I had to set up a sample farm once for the exploration program we were doing at the time and I'm pretty sure we uncovered the bottle dump at the back of a long gone pub (Golden Ridge). The history of the ghost town/mine was way cool - they all used to go underground for their social events (stoped out ballroom catering for hundreds). I used to find heaps of glass bottle tops - mostly from 'black sauce' bottles (worcestershire), the old timers must have put it on everything they ate to improve the taste (cause the food was crap). Also once spotted a glass stopper standing straight up at the surface of the soil, when I pulled it out of the ground it was still in its bottle and the bottle was still half full of a yellowy liquid - which I assumed was an acid (didnt want to fracture the stopper trying to pull it out).
Always used to blow me away when you think you're in the absolute middle of nowhere and you tell yourself you're probably the first whitefella to see these parts and then you find 100 year old trash, I certainly take my hat off to those who came before us - REAL MEN.
Also used to stump me as to how all these uneducated prospectors knew what to look for in the middle of such vastness.
Good luck and happy travels in Oz

 

[Trashpicker]

Thanks Paydirt
I too often wonder how the old guys knew where to dig. I love the old dump sites and ghost towns, it is like stepping back in time.

Later, Trashpicker.

 

[Cherokee]

Came across Trashpickers post, reading it with great interest only to get to the end and a big let down. Why didnt you post your tales/finds here in Oz. Dam it.
C.

 

[silver]

Heres hoping you end up with a heavy golden display case from your Alice Adventure Trashpicker.

 

[AtomRat]

I never saw this post, what an excellent way to display finds