Detecting in South Africa

Come on Xavier ! Make Pgill jealous ! Show us some pictures of gold rings tomorrow !

I started using Google Earth in my research and want to show you nice results !
Marked structures on the Google earth photos  represents what you see on the real photo , on the last photo structure 1 is that stony wall , but in the field I didnt see and missed structures marked as a 2 and 3 , also that trees - area in the corner can be interesting as they provide shadow in the hot days and most probably was used for the camp (?) Something to explore next time !

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Hi Silki,

Our trip will be in the new year..... thanks for allowing us to come that side... it will be good fun. We will organize as we go along....

Xavier, glad you got that pointer sorted out  did you make the whole thing yourself? I do already have a pointer, but hey it is a great project to do.


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PGill/Silki/Viking/Xavier
Thanks for the kind words and the invite to hunt in your beautiful country. And believe me, I'd love more than anything to come over to hunt with all of you but there's a lot going on and first things first, I'm scheduled to get hearing aids this month and not sure what they cost over in SA but here, a good pair runs between $5,000 and $8,000 and that's a hefty nut. Then as I said I'm going to that Civil War hunt in Feb and in April, back to jolly England for 10 days. Then the wife wants me to give her a little time so we can both get away and I'm in talks with Pierre about going to Phuket Thailand for a week the first week of March. Not sure I can swing that one but it's nice to think I can. So you see the first part of the year is tight.
Oh, and I think Lukas is planning something for Sept which I did say to him I'd be interested. Anyway, thanks for the invite.
I'm always reading your posts and sitting here in the U.S. and reading of your plans is exciting to say the least. Of course, I wish you all the best and hope you can pull this off. We are too soon gone so let's enjoy what we have while we still can.
Regards, Jim


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Hi Jim:
Holy Moley that's a lot of dosh for a hearing aid! I know that I will need them eventually, I get the ringing of a pulltab signal in my ears all the time. When I did my aviation medical the doctor actually commented and said "well you see a lot better than you hear" and I am only 39 now so you can just imagine.
Pgill
So what do you say....get together?
Xavier
Sometimes it's not the graphics card...seems to me that some parts on Google earth are in a much lower res, I get perfect images of certain areas but when I go and look at some of the sites I research up North, the pics are terrible.
Google should start a treasure site just for us......after all it's the right thing to do!
Silki
Before we all get on the band wagon...is it possible for you too organize a stay for a small group.As I said I love camping , but don't mind staying in a b&b for a couple of days.
Obviously we would need to co ordinate...business commitments, finances etc.
I just don't want see you under pressure to organize this thing....it's got to be fun all the way.
Let me know if you need help with any arrangements.
Viking


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