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Ten days in Montenegro 2015

I was looking forward to going to Montenegro again. Especially the metaldetecting was something I sOOOO wanted to do again !
But unfortunately, the collection of rings did not live up the expectation; Nevertheless, the conditions should have been optimal ! THe water was superclear, you could see your feet at all times even shoulder-deep in the water. THere were almost no waves. Tourists were crowding up the beaches for 2 months already and there hadn’t been any storms that could have shaken the goods downwards into the sand. And the bottom wasn’t quite sandy enough to let everything sink to a lower layer.. Most beaches have a layer of small stones mixed with sand. Despite all this, I only managed to find a few silver rings.

I had to get up at 5am (VACATION !!!) to get an almost empty beach. People would start appearing around that 6am already. But I managed to get up without any problem and I could go on enjoying holidays all day until 11 in the evening without feeling like a zombie. We’d go to a beach afterwards, to eat and drink and to drive around town. I never felt better !

I think I spent around 20-25 hours detecting water and sand.

The money turned out to be around 35 euro. STrangely I didn’t find much old currency, so that means previous year in Fall there would have been a movement in sand layers to make old money appear. Did find several rubbles from Russian tourists.

The hope was almost completely lost, until I went out detecting in early morning in Croatia, where we spent our night during the 22-hr trip back to Belgium. One of the first things I dug up several inches under water was the thinnest wedding ring ever ! I found several Kuna’s and did buy the tastiest figs from them afterwards. So I did enjoy my finds in Croatia !
It’s just typical how it goes in detecting.. the first half hour you find one golden ring and one coin after the other, and the next hour you don’t find anything !

So now I’m back in BElgium. I did go to our local coast one day and detected there but as usual.. I think I find like 20 cents or so, and a fake earring and hanger. O joy, living near a gigantic sand beach where everyone goes out to detect by the dozen.. SOme other guy was detecting it, taking giant steps and swinging his coil half a foot above the sand. Yay. He even brought his assistant who was somewhere in the environment holding a shovel.

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Trip to Belgian Coast

Yay, I was dying to go out to the beach and detect. We took the 2-gr drive to the sea because it would be nice weather.. And AGAIN, i was disappointed !
No nice weather until 3 in the afternoon or so.. It was misty and almost freezing cold. There were tons of people on the beach though. I was hoping the winter would have taken away a layer of sand like last year, when the war bullets were lying everywhere.
I was walking along the water and wet sand for about 2 hrs. The result : 2 lousy pieces of 10 cent !
No use in detecting on the beach here in Belgium.. Too much space to cover, and too many other detectorists.


I don’t like going metal detecting when I have a non-believer with me..because it always ends up in whining and complaining, and sometimes that already stats before I take out my gear. Since we didn’t have anything else to visit, I was allowed to go to the park in the center to hunt a bit. The park grass turned out to be great. THe only annoying thing was that it was totally crowed with little kids on cars and bikes and lots of adults spending quality time. I did manage to find a piece of 1 and 2 euro, and an almost whole bullet from the war (I guess). I never found it intact like this (except for the ones I threw back because they were really whole and frigthening).

Full of energy and elegance, that’s me :p
Playground raid in the dark

I went to the playground when kids were gone. It was already dark and I couldn’t see much. But AT LAST !! I’ve circeled around this park area for years and never could hunt it because there were always kids. They play even in winter when it’s icecold !!
I found 2 big pieces of 2 euro and a lot of little stuff. The whole trip wasn’t too bad. Again I could confirm to myself that park digging is the most rewarding

The result is medium-satisfying (it didn’t pay back my fuel :p)