Treasure Hunting

Mr. Bill, an admin at Find’s Treasure forums and owner of surfscanner.com, posted a photo of the soon to be released Fisher F2. Details are slim, but rumor has it, the Fisher F2 is due out this December. I don’t know how firm this date is, as this metal detector has been delayed a few times in the past.

We’ll keep you posted as the details come in.

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Have you been looking for a way to keep track of all your found items? i-Detect from Ginkgoware helps you do just that.

From their site:

Get rid of the old notebooks, sticky notes, cumbersome database programs, and inaccurate memories, keep a detailed record of all your detecting activites with “i-detect”

i-Detect costs $25.95, and allows you to load pictures, keep track of hundreds of finds, track total hours & collection values, keep a detailed item list, and provides advanced record searching.

I just ordered a copy of the software, so I’ll post a review when I’ve tried it, but I think it looks like the best software available for metal detectors.

If you have experience using this software, we’d love to hear from you. Put your thoughts about this software in the comments section.

Sample Screenshots

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If you’ve been through Polk County, FL (just outside of Orlando), you know there’s not a whole lot to do there. This weekend, the Trek Ten Trails program, developed by the Friends of the Parks foundation, hopes to change that. Polk county has over 125 hiking trails, and many of those will be used this weekend to encourage residents and visitors to experience the outdoors.

The Fort Fraser Trail will be featured in the first of 10 organized treks through next September in the innovative program that features hiking, exploring, and geocaching. We’ve covered geocaching on this site before, and it seems like it’s really gaining popularity. The organizers are hope that geocaching will encourage children and those who are savvy about technology to visit Polk’s paved and unpaved walking trails.

More more details on the event, visit the Orlando Sentinel, or contact the coordinator, Amy L. Edwards, at aledwards@orlandosentinel.com or 407-931-5946.

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Searching through a few sites today, I stumbled across one that I almost passed by, but something made me dig a little deeper, and man am I glad I did. VirtualParks.org is one of the best sites I’ve seen for learning about new parks, which helps find new places to metal detect.

The home page offers seven choices to help you find your next metal detecting outing:

• Geography - Use maps to drill down
  to a park you want to view scenes of
• Theme - Scenes with a common theme i.e. All Lakes, All Mountain Passes, etc.
• Best Of - A gallery of the best scenes. A showcase of the 100 best panoramas on the site
• Alpha - Panoramas listed alphabetically. Look at all scenes whose names start with A, B, C, etc.
• Trips - Narratives of the trips. The story of how the scenes were shot
• Newly Added - Most recently added panoramas. Sorted by time
• Full Screen VR - High-res FullScreen panoramas. for a more immersive experience

I decided to try out themes. Clicking on themes gives you a large list of ….well, themes. I selected Ghost towns and ruins thinking it would be a good start, and have good potential for finding relics. There are links inside this theme, and each one has a virtual tour to show you the terrain. I’ve wasted about three hours so far, and will be going back to it when I’m done with this post. The virtual tours drop you right in the middle of the location, and you can almost imagine the areas you’d search if you were there.

If you’ve been planning a metal detecting trip, VirtualParks.org might be the inspiration you need to select a location. Give it a try, and tell us what you think. If we find anything else really interesting on the site, we’ll be sure to let you know.

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