I don’t know if anyone else noticed you look 👀 ten years younger after you found that first big nugget, congratulations man,well done. 👍😎👍👍👍

What insane gold, i had no idea there was that much gold in shallow ground in Qld ranges. No wonder the early gold rushes were so crazy.

What the hell, if these werent filmed being dug up, i wouldnt have believed this.. that 262 gm'er OMG $25,000+ if 99% pure. Well done mate thats bloody awesome.

G'day Steve great to find you on here, great footage and a breath of fresh air to hear someone speak nicely, the way your Dad taught you boys, unlike the generations of today. We are still here, only a few of us old school bushies stayed on. Hope to see you back, the country has had its best wet season in decades, there is a spot here for you anytime. cheers. Michael & Leigh.

Amazing. It's a miracle how you just dig in Fields and find huge chunks of gold. In the middle of open fields

I want to wander the wilds of Australia looking for gold. Looks like a great place to be.

"ONYA CHAMP" A NUGGET to big for the container has gotta be a good day.cheers mate.

The Golden Orb Spider is even more distressing when it wraps completely around your head like a hairnet in a food factory on a drunken walk home from the pub a 2 in the morning. The trick is to not panic and just start walking backwards, the web is so strong that it is probably still stuck to the branches and will just unpeel from your head taking the spider back out with it.

Great to see you posting videos again.

So good to have you guys upload I remember growing up and I had all the VHS tapes of you guys and your stag hunts.. I probably watched them 100 times on repeat.

Wonderful of you.good luck❤😊

Awesome 👍 can't wait for part 2 Thank you so much for sharing.

All the goldies will be wanting to go where you are. I've never seen so much gold by anyone

Great video. Loved the nature bits too. Amazing find that big one. Incredible

Great work Steve pleasure to know you mate 🙌🏾👍🏽🍺⛏️

Beautiful gold Steve - well done. Its great to see another Kiwi bushman with the gold fever. Cheers and looking forward to more videos.

Excellent video mate, Love watching you guys collect, I'm too old for it now, and wish I had of given it a go years ago. Thanks, and good luck

WOW. You work hard, you get the rewards. Some very nice nuggets mate. Thanks for sharing 👍

Great stuff, well done

I'm starting to think I should have bought a 5000 instead of the 6000. You're finding so much nice gold!

Good grief that big chunk of gold is unbelievable what a find you will never forget that day my friend good on you buddy 👍🏻😊

Well done boss what finds and good luck from Robbie Liverpool England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Hi Steve , you certainly got some seriously good gold 👍, I should have changed you a bit more for the pick I sold you 🤣 , hope it's still digging good gold for you Cheers ROB

Awesome finds... But it looks as though it takes a huge amount of luck, diligence, patience, perseverance, ingenuity and knowledge and technique... Not to mention proper survival skills... As much as I would love to do that, you have indicated just how extreme it actually is..... Thanks for one of the best KZfaq vids I have seen for quite some time.... Well done, sir.....

What a Sensational haul of awesome gold you got I reckon just in this video you got over at least 16 ounces and that 8 plus ouncer was mind blowing well done indeed. I 'am definitely looking forward to part 2 😮🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑😁😆😅😂

Mate.... unbelievable... how exciting would that be. Congratulations and fantastic work.. I like your presentation, explanations and no language is very nice for a change... Again CONGRATS.!!!!!

What a great trip. I’m only new to detecting, and you find more in one day than I have in 9 months. How’s that big chunk! The snake looked like a Crown Snake and the spider was a Whistling Wolf Spider, related to the tarantulas. This is you first video I’ve found, can’t wait to watch more.

Awesome just found your channel!

First time I"ve seen this channel! I subscribed and all notifications!

Hi Steve the snake is a northern species of whip snake. You can see the characteristic white pattern sweeping around, below & behind the eye. It also has a large eye, small head, thinner neckline than brown snakes & long slender body. The white stripe behind the head i have not seen on this species before, however juveniles can have fading variations & there is species still to be discovered. I recently discovered a brown colored blind snake in my area that is little known. A new striped venomous snake has been found in the desert recently too. Whip snakes in general are quick moving & go about their business, most are mildly venomous but relatively harmless to humans, but you definitely don't want a bite.

WOW absolutely amazing finds buddy, stunning country up there, one day i might make it for a trip sometime but for now east Gippsland vic is my local prospecting area. I'll definitely keep an eye out for the next upload.

I would love to visit Australia; however, I think I would be afraid to walk around in your bush. Poisonous snakes, deadly spiders, big disease carrying bats. The worst would be the wasp, from the way your hand looked, if I got stung, I would most likely keel over and die, need an anaphylactic kit right handy. I am deathly allergic to bee/wasp venom, last sting hospitalized me for a week. Would love to find gold nuggets like you have been finding. I am lucky to get some flour gold or some very small pieces. I live not far from the Bohemia Mining District in my home state. I can find some fine gold in the moss on the rock cliffs after a few days of heavy rain. Have found some small stuff in some of the old tailing's piles or panning the streams and rivers. Unfortunately, where I live, I have to carry a sidearm in the back country, we have two large predators, the Black Bear (Ursa americanus) and the Puma (Puma concolor), then there is the Northern Pacific Rattlesnake (Crotalus oreganus), deadly, but are rather tasty, if prepared right. Enjoying your videos so far. Shelly Ann, LPN (ret) Mdn/USNSCC. HM2c(FMF)/USN, Sgt/USAR A Việt Nam War Era Veteran and 1st Gulf War Combat Disabled Veteran Stroke Survivor, 2004

Well done buddy fantastic work 👍👍

Keep up the good work .... I hope you have great success! ✌👵

well done on the finds enjoyed the video😊

Nice haul there Steve! Some unusually shaped nuggets in that lot, almost a crystalline shape. Bet you'll be back there again.

New subber here my goodness what nice nuggets you find Congratulations! I'd love to come down under for a little dig!

Very good prospecting!👍

OH that would be me so much , real sweet finds .

Great gold.Only done the Pilbara and got some small bits but yours are spectacular

I cannot help being jealous of y’all over there, I live in Carolina there just isn’t stuff like this around. Maybe in the shell in the middle of the state, but there’s not exactly a big field I can go to with a metal detector and start picking out chunks of gold! Thank you for recording what you’re doing, I really enjoyed seeing it.

Chapter 2 was great but this one is getting better. Amazing how much time and effort you put in for such great reward. Just got to the part where you filmed the Paper Wasps. That hand looks puffy to say the least.

That spider is the common trap door, great haul of gold there.

Wow!! Amazing!!

well done mate you cleaned up

Cool channel! Your a legend

beautiful work guys

Good day mate from NZ. Never been gold hunting always hunted our bush with a rifle the 4-legged kind, knees are fked now so won't be walking of the garden path much these days. I like your walk abouts and wish I'd tried what you're doing years ago now, the back blocks the native things you show every thing just great. That paper wasp you incantated yep we have them here too and yep their stings are sure killers, bit like a red-hot poker being forced up your bo-eye ah. Over here they are called hornets owes range in color from black, rusty red or yellow and black either way they are killers when it comes to stinging and like you, I used to swill up. You know when you're on their nest when you hear their buzzing about your head, some even let out a odd hormone smell and once you get to know that smell get te hell out of there a few paces. Kia ora keep up the good movies mate cheers.

Absolutely awesome 😮

incredible finds steve youre making me keen to try queensland instead of wa need to get alot of browny points from my better half im thinking .you seem to be doing alot better than most other prospectors but time and effort pays off so well done just fantastic

Living the dream mate. :)

Your vary damn lucky, @ talented. Excellent video were the hell are you? Theise are wonderful finds"

te gradeço pelo teus videos , ganhou mais um escrito, te acompanho do Brasil, Juazeiro do norte, as tuas mãos deixa claro q vc já batalha a algum tempo, vc é merecedor de toda riqueza, encontrar muito ouro. obrigado por compartilha tua experiência .

Wau que bello lugar tienes el mejor trabajo del mundo manejas tus horarios y estas en la naturaleza 😊😊😊 me gustaria buscar oro nunca tube la oportunidad

Wow great job! I've always wanted to try metal detecting for gold but thought you couldn't really find that much in one day consistently.

Very good, good lucky sir

So so happy for you

Got to be stoked with gold finds like that, after all the rain the past few months the grass will be thick this year, when those wasps get disturbed and angry they sure hit hard, great video.

Well done

I reckon that spider is a Queensland Trapdoor; anyway good luck with the prospecting & here’s to the next big find

Gloves are pretty handy and can help those hard working hands, wow 262 gram find. What a beauty

Sweet sweet yellow , I want to lick the tears of the sun 😄

Wish I could go gold minneing with you!! Stay safe

That spider is a Tarantula (Selenocosmia crassipes) - plenty of em' up there around the Palmer.

I was up the Palmer last September,had a swollen hand just like yours wasn't much fun

You can tell how hard it is to get some of these nuggets by the blisters and callouses on your hands - My nephew is planning to start detecting and i dont think he realises how much hard work is involved

Very spectacular finds! Congratulations! Is this your first goldtrip since covid started? Looking forward to episode 2. Do you still use the rooftop tent setup?

I am throughly enjoying your channel. Thank you. My friend and I are hoping to go camping over the holiday season and we’re going to buy a detector to hopefully have some fun. Would someone recommend one for 2 women that are both vertically challenged lolll. Some of them look very big and bulky to use. Thank you

amazing

Aloha from Hawaii looks like you have The hands of a hard worker hands of steel or is that hands of gold have ❤ a great day God-bless you.

That spider definitely isn't a funnell web. Some kind of tarantula. That said, your safest bet is to assume every spider is a funnell web unless you're 100% sure it isn't. You were right on the baby brown snake. Amazing finds!!!

Crikey that's some serious gold there! I'm lucky to find a one gramer and you're pulling these lunkers out of the ground!

Absolutely amazing great video.. were all the coils mono coils?

verry good

That spider might be an Australian Tarantulas as we do have s species up North

Take me with you ❤❤❤

Congrats on the awesome haul of gold nugget chunks mate! Is that a stock GPX5000 with NF coil you're using? What general area are you in btw? Was it heavily detected with dig holes around? Looks like FNQ - Thanks for sharing your finds - Cheers

Happy for you , patience is a virtue , OK not trying to make a poem here

Beautiful nuggets mate! Not many people gets days like that.

Nice

Ok, you've made me jealous.

Great going Steve, you have a new sub. thinking your new pick looks like a"Walco"from Shepparton. was that Rob or maybe Cliff?

BRRRRRRILIANT SHOW

I'd be setting up camp for a few months or years depending on how rich you want to be. I hope you can get a gold lease in that area. And I think the spider is a tarantula.

Wowza

Can't beat our Ausy gold

The Queensland tarantulas rare human bites are not fatal, however, some can get large enough to take a baby chick, hence the common name ' bird eating spiders'. They do have large fangs and are very quick when they do strike, and can inflict a painful double puncture. Usually its the mature boys you see, out hunting the females in their burrows. Males only live 2 or 3 years on average. Females can live over a decade.

Having a great run like this you must be in Palmerville/cannibal creek area. If not, have you been there ? Well done, cheers 🍻

I git these for a 'cold beer' out there.

Looks a lot like Palmerville station

Well done Steve. Another great video . Your first one detecting in western Australia a few years ago is the best I've seen so far. Can you tell us were you detecting on public or private property up there in north Queensland? Thanks

Yes, I can't believe it either.

Wow.

Awesome! Payday

Oh, and I meant to say. GoPros are terrible at close up filming, your up close shots are great. Don’t waste your money.

Awesome stuff mate. How far north are you,and what detector you got? Is it 7000? Love your show.

The wasp is obviously a paper wasp species of which there is 12,000 recorded in Australia. It is a red wasp but usually they have black wings & not always so pure red all over, the red wings stand out & if you look at data photos i doubt you will find one with red wings & body so you might even have a new species or variation. A very similar one is the Southern Paper Wasp in a red form. I knew an entomologist who believed there is millions of insects yet to be identified & recorded.

Hi sir awesome video so tel me sir how does one obtain a propecting license do to this type of prospecting what you are doing

Damn you Aussie's have the best of both world's, hell and heaven all in one place. Spiders, killer wasps, poisonous snakes in amongst all that gold... Even heard you guys have a poisonous plant similar to poison ivy except people who come into contact with it commit suicide due to the pain because it lasts weeks. Good finds though!

Fantastic,mate,you have to use good gloves!!!