Heading out this afternoon - US Navy base

[abmm]

Wee hours of the morning for most of you folk, but it's just after lunchtime on a Sunday afternoon here, so even though I am suffering terribly from the mother of all flus, I'm gonna bite the bullet and run the old detector over an old US Navy base site just down the road from my house. Strangely, although we are in the middle of the monsoon season, there isn't a cloud in the sky - it's an omen.

This WWII navy base is an interesting spot. Just walking around when the grass isn't too long, I have found badly corroded jeep parts and war time beer bottles - here in Aus, the soldiers, sailors and airmen must have just drank and drank to relieve the boredom - the bottles are cool because the bulk of the ones found around here are conveniently dated with a dirty great 1942 or 1944 embossed onto the bottom.

I think I have gotten the detector to work OK after its 10 years of storage, so I'll report back later with my findings...

[prizm-pal]

Almost ten pm...here in boston Mass...have a nice hunt and welcome to Tq...Chick!

[SandSkimmer]

Good Luck.... and good hunting

jT

[schoser]

hope you find some good stuff there...take er easy bro cory

[Dixieldy]

Wishing you success on your hunt. Welcome to TQ! Great to have you here.

[grasshopper]

sounds like fun good luck

[EPC Guy]

I would be happy to buy one of those beer bottles from you at a fair price...I think it would be cool to have one...let me know if you think we can work something out...

[abmm]

Well, just got back - grass was up to my shoulders and with this flu, the cross country trek through the rainforest nearly killed me. Not much metal about in the areas which were clear of grass, but a lot of leftovers from when the site was demolished - I found some ceramic tiles as well as some more beer bottles and a spent .45 cartridge.

Not too good hunting, but it never is when the grass is that long.

Speaking of beer bottles...

Originally Posted by EPC Guy

I would be happy to buy one of those beer bottles from you at a fair price...I think it would be cool to have one...let me know if you think we can work something out...

We probably could work something out no worries, but postage would cost more than a "fair price" - we have thousands of these bottles in dumps all around northern Australia. To be continued...

We have so many bottles around that as a fundraiser for the ABMM (museum), we were going to gather up as many as we could, make some labels and a sell them as a home-brew beer kit called "Bunker Beer". Still might.

[Buster]

Glad you still got out...Buster...

[gordiesgirl]

So nice to have an aussie with us, My mother was born and raise in NSW I have been to Australia three times and love it. i will be looking forward to seeing all your finds, Welcome to TQ.