Quick Stop at Jarrahdale POW Camp

    Today was my day off, so I wanted to revisit the old homesite where I went last week to do a bit more detecting around there and check out another potential site for detecting , my first stop was and the mid to late 1800s site I swung the detector around for a couple of hours not getting much at all got some more building material a rather large U clamp or something which I brought home to clean up cause it was just so big never seen one like that before,  a couple more bottle tops and what looks to be a rusted key but it could just be building material again plus a couple what could be modern drawer handles on the surface made of glass but accidently broke one, I will post the finds another day haven't photographed them yet, there was also like a keyring when I first pulled it out it looked like and old ring then I cleaned it up a little and realized it wasn't.  

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   I left the site to check out another one I found on Google Earth but it looks like it not a homesite just where people have been camping and riding motorbikes etc, So I decided to take the long way home and Check the POW camp again I always check in there every couple of years to see how much the landscape has changed, it is starting to get overgrown now the pathways are still there but the trees are getting bigger and there are more of them, I had a quick look around grabbed the camera and went for a walk, here are the shots from the POW camp, I was also keeping and eye out for Wildflowers along the way.

Good to see the old Chimney is still standing

A View of the Munda Biddy Trail from the POW camp

I had thought of going for a detect around here but don't think you are allowed as it is a heritage site, the ground looks real hard to so might be difficult to dig, I did see some old dig holes while walking around looks like someone has been detecting there and not filling their holes in.

     On the way home I stopped at Jarrahdale oval and the old Wood Milling sheds to have a look and a few snaps.

The old Wood milling Shed in Jarrahdale

All images are copyrigh Mark A. Gray

Sunset at Woodman Point

    After a days detecting out in the bush I wanted to get home for the Sunset at Woodman Point don't think I have ever been there for the Sunset yet. I haven't taken the camera out for a while it is usually with me went I go out exploring or detecting but I don't always get it out, we headed out for the sunset to a location at Woodman point where I don't recall going for the sunset before, I have been fishing from there when I was younger but hadn't taken the time to explore, I was on google earth the other day looking for a location to go detecting, and noticed a rocky sand bank on the other side going out to sea on the other side of woodman point must of been a reasonably low tide cause the pictures I had seen of this bank there was a lot more water on the banks of it then there was today,

    We parked up and went for a walk lots of Kitesurfers around here which made for some interesting shots.

   Here are a few from this trip

A Tern with fresh catch just pulled it out of the water 

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Out in the bush Detecting

    I have always wanted to get a Metal Detector and a few weeks ago I purchased a cheap one to get me started, so the thought was give it a go if I like it will get a better one in the future. The first day out with the detector was at the beach never found anything. a week or so later I recieved a drone from my wife for my birthday again it was a cheap one if I liked we will get a better one later. so I took it out to a local oval for some flying practice and went for a detect after, only found a few tent pegs and bottle tops and a couple ring pulls. 

  I have been doing some research and recieved my Miners rights, I  went for a drive out the bush where I believed there used to be and old mid to late 1800's homesite, I have been to the site years and years ago with the camera hoping to get some good bird shots and find some ruins, my first challenge today was finding the right track to get there after driving for nearly and hour trying to find it I finally found the track I am glad at least I had an AWD and a bit of clearance as the track is a little worse for wear these days, it doesn't look like the roads have been maintained for a while now even the area is all over grown and tracks dug up by Motor bikes and offroad vehicles tearing it up.

   After Parking the car having a walk around swinging the detector for nearly and not getting anything apart from bottles tops and ring pulls, I was about to give up and go home, while heading back to the car I noticed what looked to be old foundations about 50 metres away, as I got closer it was more and more evident there used to be a homesite there, so i starting swinging  the detector around and getting a few signals, I kept digging up old bolts and nuts plus other building material, and then got a signal and dug it up it was my first old coin I had found with the detector, feeling a bit more confident i was about to fill in the hole and there were 2 more coins there, I had dug up a 3 coin spill all one pennys from 1933 to 1948, after checking again with no ore signals i filled in the hole and about 10m away another signal it was another coin about 6 - 8 inches deep, checking it again there were no more signals.

   By then it was starting to get late it was still and hour or so drive home thinking I will have to go back there on my next day off for anothere swing, here are all my finds for the first day out in the bush

The Household Building Items and Junk I found

Some random stuff lead, piece of glass and a part of a hinge or something 

The four pennys 1933, 1934 and 2 x 1948 Roo Pennys

 Overall it wasn't a bad first day out in the bush