UnderMiner
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- Jul 27, 2014
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A Typical Day's Finds
Got up bright and early today to do more treasure hunting and coastal exploring. No gold or silver today, but some other nice expensive things.
First site I went to was this abandoned dockyard in Flushing Bay:
Believe it or not but the headquarters for the 37th British Regiment was situated here during the Revolutionary War. Back then this area was a waterfront resort known for its natural beauty. I was hoping there would still be some potential to find some colonial artifacts here. All that hope faded away when I read about what the city did to this place in the mid 1800's. NYC's Tammany Hall allowed 110 train car loads of coal ash to be dumped into this bay every day for years - thus burying and contaminating the site forever. To think that this place was once beautiful is hard to believe:
Some of the junk that washed ashore included this fisherman's lunch/tackle box. It contained some long lost fishing gear and trinkets:
One of the more valuable finds of the day was this carbon fiber ore. It's the lightest ore I've ever held, probably worth something too:
A collection of sinkers and other things I collected from the bay:
Hit the dump afterwards as usual and found this nice Dell Inspiron 15 laptop.
After a good physical cleaning and some software upgrades I managed to get it working good as new.
(The main problem with it was many of the F-keys were stuck with syrup and this prevented the computer from booting).
It has a Windows 7 operating system, a 500GB hard drive, and 4GB RAM. Best laptop I own now come to think of it:
Got up bright and early today to do more treasure hunting and coastal exploring. No gold or silver today, but some other nice expensive things.
First site I went to was this abandoned dockyard in Flushing Bay:
Believe it or not but the headquarters for the 37th British Regiment was situated here during the Revolutionary War. Back then this area was a waterfront resort known for its natural beauty. I was hoping there would still be some potential to find some colonial artifacts here. All that hope faded away when I read about what the city did to this place in the mid 1800's. NYC's Tammany Hall allowed 110 train car loads of coal ash to be dumped into this bay every day for years - thus burying and contaminating the site forever. To think that this place was once beautiful is hard to believe:
Some of the junk that washed ashore included this fisherman's lunch/tackle box. It contained some long lost fishing gear and trinkets:
One of the more valuable finds of the day was this carbon fiber ore. It's the lightest ore I've ever held, probably worth something too:
A collection of sinkers and other things I collected from the bay:
Hit the dump afterwards as usual and found this nice Dell Inspiron 15 laptop.
After a good physical cleaning and some software upgrades I managed to get it working good as new.
(The main problem with it was many of the F-keys were stuck with syrup and this prevented the computer from booting).
It has a Windows 7 operating system, a 500GB hard drive, and 4GB RAM. Best laptop I own now come to think of it:
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