I have been lurking for a couple of months, joined a few weeks ago and have submitted the basic 10 posts, so thought I had better introduce myself.
I am well and truly retired and spend most of my time doing volunteer work when not doing things at home. I have done a wide range of vollie work, in Victoria, NSW, Queensland and WA, mainly associated with helping out on farms or cattle stations when they were in need for help after fires or floods, but back home also doing event organising and general equipment maintenance for a charity. I am reasonably well equipped for both long distance and off-road travel and camping (different vehicles) so getting into some reasonably remote country or forest areas is fine by me.
I have a technical background, but have been expanding my horizons since retiring, getting back into things that were of interest many, many years ago, such as prospecting, since I grew up near Eldorado and Beechworth and did some panning there as a young bloke. I still have a range of pans and sieves from those days.
Now the technical interests are melding with a lifelong interest in geology, so that involves mapping, GPS, and now metal detecting mainly interested in the yellow stuff. As my family have become interested in what I am doing, I am now encouraging grand-kids to do some basic detecting as well, using cheaper detectors, so where that ends up should be interesting, but expect it to be mainly beaches and parks for some time.
So now the "family" has a SDC 2300, Xterra 705 and a couple of Aldi specials, as well as the original basic pans and sieves.
Rob
I am well and truly retired and spend most of my time doing volunteer work when not doing things at home. I have done a wide range of vollie work, in Victoria, NSW, Queensland and WA, mainly associated with helping out on farms or cattle stations when they were in need for help after fires or floods, but back home also doing event organising and general equipment maintenance for a charity. I am reasonably well equipped for both long distance and off-road travel and camping (different vehicles) so getting into some reasonably remote country or forest areas is fine by me.
I have a technical background, but have been expanding my horizons since retiring, getting back into things that were of interest many, many years ago, such as prospecting, since I grew up near Eldorado and Beechworth and did some panning there as a young bloke. I still have a range of pans and sieves from those days.
Now the technical interests are melding with a lifelong interest in geology, so that involves mapping, GPS, and now metal detecting mainly interested in the yellow stuff. As my family have become interested in what I am doing, I am now encouraging grand-kids to do some basic detecting as well, using cheaper detectors, so where that ends up should be interesting, but expect it to be mainly beaches and parks for some time.
So now the "family" has a SDC 2300, Xterra 705 and a couple of Aldi specials, as well as the original basic pans and sieves.
Rob
