If you're reading this and you haven't read part 1, good news! You don't need to go back and read it first, but it may be useful if you want the back story. Day 2. Pop's Second Home A few hundred metres and across the road from his first home was Pop's second home. Again, there is no remaining evidence of a dwelling at a casual glance and you certainly can't see anything from the road. It was harder to find where this house was, the land owner knew where it had been and po

My pop died in 2008 and I miss him a lot. We spent a lot of time together, fishing, playing snooker, fishing, watching cricket, watching league, fishing. On what would have been his 100th birthday the family and I went to the jetty where we used to go fishing, ate food from his favourite fish and chip shop and we shared favourite memories about him with each other. I wasn't into metal detecting when he was alive but I think he would have enjoyed seeing my finds and telling

About two years ago in the summer, my uncle rang me whilst I was metal detecting a beach in South Australia. I can’t remember the purpose of the original call but we wound up making a plan to visit and go metal detecting at my Pop’s old homestead in rural NSW Fast forward to earlier this year and a massive metal detecting competition in QLD (2200km from my home town) is announced. Clegy (from Aussie Detectorist) announced the competition, however since I'd already committed