Last minute decision to head out to a park I pass whilst on the way to the shopping centre we go to. I dropped a note on a Facebook group asking to see if anyone else wanted to come down for a swing, but most people were tied up that morning it seems.
When i arrived the council were doing greenwaste tree chipping, which took out the corner of the park i was initially most interested in, as it did have an old house there in the 40’s. It was on the corner of 2 main roads so would have been hunted heavily, and full of junk anyway.
The park it’s self has a few old cricket pitches on it, it also houses the circus when it is in town, so i was hoping for a bunch of spendables. Speaking to a guy on the Facebook group later that day, he said he’d had a $100 off it a moth or so prior.
I ended up with $9.95 in spendables (2 x $2, 5 x $1, 4 x 20c, 1 x 10x and 1 x 5c) Nine Brown Buggers all up too.
After spending a bunch of time in the first half of the park and really only pulling up the spendables and so much canslaw it wasn’t funny, i moved through to the back part of the park. I noticed straight away that there wa a section of park which either had been left as bush, or had re-vegetated to some extent. There were a bunch of older big trees in here too, which served as my targets.
This area was much better, less canslaw and I was soon in to the pre-decimals. All around the bases of the big trees, they are always prime targets in my hunts. I ended up with three Penny’s (1943, 1949, 1951) and two Half Pennys (1946 and 1948).
I also dug a few random bits and pieces, a key and an oval brass ring (CCR?). There was also half a cog, from a clock or something, but as i pulled it out i thought i’d found my first Rising Sun badge and got super excited. As i cleaned off the muck i realised I hadn’t filled that bucket lister 🙁 The cog is still kinda cool though.
It was a full day, super hot, but i had 30 good recoveries so was happy with the results.