Camping In New Zealand Dredging GOLD, Finding Fossils, and Catching BIG Eels!

in this video I spent 3 weeks in remote New Zealand finding tons of gold Look at that Discovering 400 million-year-old fossils and even testing my fishing skills to try and catch a monster eel I hope you enjoy Hi this is our first official video of 2025 and we're already heading back to New Zealand But I have one more stop to make before heading to the airport We're taking the Pioneer Mobile to West Shore Spring 4x4 here on Vancouver Island for a whole new suspension tires rims and then it's getting dropped off at M2 Graphics for a whole new wrap So I'm super excited to reveal that to you but we're going to have to wait till I'm back in Canada Okay let's get this over with because I want to get to the airport Okay we are here Unfortunately they're closed because it's a holiday today so I can't uh introduce you to the boys in blue Okay so the next time you see this vehicle it's going to look it's going to look good It's going to look different I can't wait to reveal that to you guys But uh yeah so let's go drop off the key and head to the airport That's not it Fast forward about 24 hours I finally landed in New Zealand There they are And after a couple days adjusting to the new time zone we made our way to the bush So today is the day we actually we finally heading up to the river right now and I'll be there for 3 weeks So really three weeks of view So our first stop today is we're actually picking up an ATV that I'm going to take up there because because it's going to be better than walking Look at this bogan Don't crash I really want to see him fall No I don't because I need as long as the bike doesn't get hurt Do it again So where we're going is Darren's claim It's the same place I go every single year And his claim is so big that if I want to get to the top end of it I have to walk And it takes a long time to walk And not that I don't want to walk I don't want to walk that I convinced Jonesy here to lend me his ATV so I can spend more time on the river looking for gold than than walking I come here every year well recently twice a year to find the most amount of gold possible I've had incredible luck last year So will this trip prove to be the same and just like that we are at base camp So we will be here for the next while I don't know what the weather's going to do It doesn't matter because uh we'll have roofs over our head I got to figure out where I'm going to stay I'll probably stay here I mean I was there last time but there's a truck in the way so I'll I'll make my tent right there Ree of course has a rooftop tent Now he's not going to let me in there this time because uh I stink sometimes So so I have to sleep in the tent No big deal So I'm going to set up my camp right now and then I'm going to put on the wet suit and let's go see if we can find some gold for today Good enough Oopsies All right so officially doing it again I got no expectations for today Like I said I'm down here for 3 weeks and I don't want to put a lot of pressure on myself like I normally do I'm just going to go out see what kind of gold I can find and ultimately just have a good time I don't show enough of this but it's just so beautiful out here No matter where you go it's all green There's tons of ferns all sorts of wildlife that you see because those are like basically chickens and these birds that like want everything you have to eat Once the wet suit goes on there's no turning back It's time to get in that cold water I'm using the shovel here to move the overburden out of the way so I can see the bedrock Once I see the bedrock I can start working the cracks and that's where the gold will be So I just found a big heavy chunk of iron stone which means we're working with a heavy material is which could also mean there could be gold around And the reason I know that is because we just found our first little nugget of the [Music] day So I suck up the gold by using what's called a snuffer bottle You just squeeze and let go and it sucks up the gold Not a bad chunky little piece All right Now of course when you see a crevice with gold in it you have to finish cleaning it out which I did but there was no more gold inside All right more iron stone is leading us to more gold I just found a second gold nugget So I went to the very bottom of that hole Didn't see anything else So let's find a new spot So I just got out of the water for a little bit Just uh had something to eat And now I'm taking a look at the view again I just can't get over how beautiful it is out here I'm quite a ways from the camp Still on Darren's claim just way further upstream You can see my hole down in there I keep finding a little bit of gold and some gold I'm honestly not even sucking up because it's just in the tiniest cracks that I can't get out But that's okay I think at some point I'll find a big nugget and uh that'll make it all worthwhile I'm just going to get my gear here head on downstream a little ways see if I can find one more spot and then head back to camp have dinner and then come back out tomorrow morning So I just changed spots and I found a nice little flake in this thin little crack This one might be hard to fill but I'll give it a try [Music] What I'm doing here is removing a bunch of rock so I can access the smaller grally material that's on the bedrock Once I'm there I can sort of sift through it looking for that heavy iron stone and obviously gold as I come across it [Music] Okay so about 10 minutes later I've been breaking up some bedrock and now I'm starting to see a bunch of little gold So let me just film it and see if we can find something else on camera Even though it's unlikely I'm going to find anything big in the area I'm currently working in it's still super relaxing fanning material away and sucking up little bits of gold All right so day one complete I got all my stuff laid out everywhere Got to dry my wet suit still We're going to go back to camp and uh dump out the gold see what we have and then just try to beat it tomorrow Back at base camp Got the snuffer bottle here And then uh we're going to see what we got in a couple [Music] hours Hurry up Tada We We got a special rock What kind of special rock is that one you weren't even looking for that No I don't know what that is So there you have it A little bit of gold for a few hours that we're in the water All pretty chunky which I I admire All right so I'm going to go make some food and then I'm going to let this dry put it away and we'll get back to it tomorrow I don't normally film this part but as you can tell it's a longer video and I'm quite the chef As you can see cheese and chicken and mastoid As it's our first night we all went straight to sleep That's a lie I actually got a bow and a bunch of arrows and we went out trying to shoot each other and then we lost all the arrows So we ended up playing cards till it got dark then we went to bed That's a lie We actually started climbing trees with the air Good morning It is the next day and it's been raining a lot Not a big deal I think it's going to clear out pretty quick I'm not going to take the ATV up there this time because our new friend Taylor wants to take his SUV up there Plus it's just quicker easier and I won't get stuck It's also going to be nice having somebody else with you because if I were to get hurt up there I'm a long ways from camp So let's pack up and find some gold Have fun dredging loser Yeah good luck So my buddy Ree will be dredging So once I'm done for the day I'll float downstream to check on him and our pet eel named Rex I'm going to need Rex to trust me if I plan on catching a much bigger one later [Music] Just found the first piece of the day A little piece of fly poop So yes the majority of this trip is to find gold However I recently learned that some of the oldest fossils in the world are found right here So I'm definitely taking my time while [Music] searching So it's been another hour I haven't been finding anything but I just found a pile of iron stone and then one nice little flake [Music] Just using my flashlight to look into deeper creass is And I found a nice piece of gold So this piece was actually hard to get out But because I was so good at finessing it I was able to save it Yeah A little picker [Music] on her own I made my way downstream to a spot I passed when hiking up This spot was where I found the first set of fossils and our first thicker chunk of gold Awesome My tweezers are in my bag downstream So I'll try to get it out and if I can't I'll go get my [Laughter] [Music] tweezers Check this out I just banked out a foster The other half of it is still on the bedrock [Music] Oh look Another one [Music] [Applause] [Music] I'm not so sure I'll be able to show you this but I found two nuggets It's in a really tough spot though So this spot was sketchy to say the least Not only was I under a rapid but there was a huge boulder wedged against the cliffside right above where my body was underwater Gold is never worth risking your life for But it's much harder to notice that risk in the moment I'm going to have to get them off camera because I can't hold everything at the same time Once I rescued those pieces I took a breath and floated downstream to meet with Rex and to check in on Reese and the Dredge [Music] [Applause] Legend has it that there's a big eel that lurks these areas So I brought some meat to see if I can feed it I've never actually done this before so there's a chance this thing will chop my hand off [Music] Woohoo there that was easy I gained its trust Now all I have [Music] to Good He likes the ham but I think he'd rather take gold Either way I have his blessing to go hunt for a much bigger eel later on Well that was cool I've never been an eel So Darren and Ree are doing just fine They're an excellent team that can trust each other I sort of just shadowed Reese and jumped in the water whenever he spotted a bit of gold on the bedrock [Music] And after about 20 minutes of this they were ready for their first cleanup [Music] Oh my god A rock Some gold there There Some more there There's gold everywhere [Music] When you find candy it's a good chance there could be candy [Music] around Got a nice square nail It's handmade by a guy named Charles Johnson II He was in here in 1846 making old sleuth boxes for us to find All right while they finished doing the thingy I waited for the bit of gold I found for the day to dry And then we headed off to Darren's to clean up all the gold that was in the dredge I could use a hot shower anyway Okay just like that we're at Darren's house to clean up the gold that they found from the dredge trip So hopefully there'll be a lot of gold to show you guys I also have to work on a video on my laptop at the same time So I'll be doing that in between me taking shots Hello Hi How are you doing good to see you While Reese and Darren are down there sifting away I'm up here drinking orange juice Check out these nuggets This is all from Darren's special spots Obviously we got the 4 oz nugget I have the 3 oz piece that I bought from Reese This is the 4 oz one Um not for sale but I one day hope have it There's this nugget It's 9 g And I believe the day I found a 16 g nugget This one was its partner a while back So maybe one day I'll be able to get that one And this is from another video I've done a while ago And then all these Oh my god there's Look what I found Oh I found a fuzz Where'd it go i found a fuzz So what we're doing is that is all the concentrates and then Ree or Darren and I sift through this stuff All the bigger stuff goes here which we're going to pan out And all the fine stuff goes through the cube here which gets concentrated down to nice yellow pieces of gold I'm trying really really hard to stay nice and cool but it's a million degrees out and I'm a Canadian and this is really hard to to survive this heat Always a stunning day out here Not always only when I'm here It's a stunning day So Darren's accommodating me nicely He got me sitting in the shade here while I do some panning So I'm almost done the first pan here And check that out We are already getting a nice line of chunky gold in pan number one There's obviously a bunch more pens to do And then there's the fine gold over there And there you have it First pan done Chunky gold We even found a boot tack I imagine there's going to be plenty more of those to come Okay pan number two Check this out More lovely pieces of candy [Music] and numeral three So I did a lot of panning and now I'm tired and I don't want to pan anymore So I just finished bucket number one and then I just got bucket number two But for the gold this is what we got in bucket number one Now that's a lot of gold and it does not include the fine gold that's over there for the nuggets that we picked out earlier in the trip Oh yeah that's a cool long one [Music] Cool Nice Very nice Imagine finding all that in like one pan Yeah you just It is It is in one pan That's it Okay What does this look like now oh nice Very colorful I'd say there's gold here Four years later we got the second bucket done And here's the chunky bits Gosh I love that It makes me want to dredge like full time It's a lot more than I'd get sniping A lot more effort too We're not going to add the fine gold to the way up just because we don't think it's going to add up to that much I mean all gold adds up but not really We don't want to do it right now is what I'm trying to say There's gold in there anyway Okay so Darren is going to be drying up all the gold for us here I say us like I'm involved but he's drying the gold And uh I am trying to render a video And look how long it says it's going to be 9 almost 10 hours Oh my god He's done I actually dropped a nugget when Chris Vogus was down with me at my place We actually had to open up everything and undo the U bend We're going to cook some gum Do you have any salt nothing like some salt Seasoning Some season You can smell the mercury I have the same scale I have the same scale So all three of us have decided that whoever guesses it gets all of the gold So I'm going to guess8 No no 8 Uh I'm going to guess 80 g So 3 oz Yeah Yeah 80 g 57 57 62 62 I say 80 [Music] 1 2 [Music] 3 I don't even know if I'm filming yet I think we're all way off I was bang on 44 g about 50 with that other stuff I reckon Yeah Still not too bad Not too bad but No we knew that this truck wasn't going to be as flat as the other ones No we've been doing really well That's all right Don't Don't you spill it Okay Ready i know a magic trick I'm going to pull this really really fast All right a little bit of an update So the very next day I got sick And I always seem to get sick when I travel And I I was sick for like 6 days but now I'm feeling better And I'm going to go pick up my metal detector that just showed up in the mail For some reason the last time I was here I had some issues with it So I sent it away to get fixed And now it's fixed It's been taking forever but now it finally arrived the day I feel better So we're going to take that tomorrow dig out that fossil that I saw in the bedrock and see if we can find gold with the metal detectors Picking it up yeah I'm just picking it up Cool Thanks so much I actually should have got a drink Maybe I'm still sick I kind of don't really feel I'm out of breath Look what showed up on my videos Okay finally Hello So the issue I was having wasn't with the detector itself It was with the coil the old coil that I had I'm not sure exactly what happened but it just wouldn't read any signals So Charles at DredgeNZ provided me with a brand new coil So shout out to DredgeNZ If you need anything gold prospecting related in New Zealand pretty sure he'll ship around anywhere else as well Charles Dredger NZ Thank you so much buddy Now the pressure is on because it has to work So we're going to walk back to the park which is right here and uh I'm going to go to the center of it to turn this machine on and see if it makes any difference Now if those pieces of gold are still in my pocket that is good Yes we have one piece I will place on well next to that leaf So that's good Turn down the sensitivity Okay that's a good sign that there could be gold around Now I'm going to get my other piece of gold and see if it works Excellent Mission successful Uh-oh Hope it is That is excellent news It means that this machine is working and we are back in action Now the day I found out that the coil stopped working was a day that Chris from Otago Gold bless his heart flew me and a bunch of others including himself with a helicopter like way out in the middle of nowhere further than we've ever been before And once we get dropped off I hike an extra hour up in the middle of absolutely nowhere And I turn on the detector and it doesn't work So it's at the max setting right now This is a a metal piece nothing I was really frustrated that day I was like great now I have no pan no detector I'm stuck here for eight hours until the helicopter comes back and picks us up Anyways now that won't happen because of Charles from Dredge NZ for replacing this coil So what we're going to do now is we're going to pack up get ready and we're going to head to the river for about another week before I fly back to Canada All right so I have my flash on because it's sort of dark in here Reese Jonesy and I are at the river but we all decide to split up and try different tributaries And funny enough I picked a tributary off the side of the creek and my very first target I got was gold Yeah we're already ahead of the team I think they might have already found gold too But I'm pretty sure because I just got in the creek and found a piece of gold already I am in the lead Now there's a fair way to go still So let's get back to detecting After spending about 15 more seconds on this tiny puddle of a creek I didn't find anything else So I made my way down to where Jonesy was I have no idea where I'm going Getting snagged Ow Okay So I gave Reese my GPS The reason for that is because I'll be relatively close to Jonesy and Ree is going to be much further away Okay So I gave him the GPS because it has an emergency button on it where if you press it search and rescue come looking for you So I gave it to him and a search and rescue helicopter just flew overhead Not very low pretty high So I'm kind of in a weird position because helicopters fly around a lot I mean that could just be for an exercise or it could be for Reese I don't think so but I think I think Reese is fine Did you see the search and rescue helicopter fly overhead going straight over I I was like "Oh no we're going to have to go look for him." But he's in good hands if he's in in trouble They were falling straight there if it was him Yeah Plus I have no idea where he's at So I did however find a little piece of gold Was not that little Maybe.3 but then I came down here because I thought maybe it'd be better idea if we're just together So that spot will have to wait Our first signal like right away Our second signal of the day [Applause] It sounds good It's going down and up so it could be big Hearing signals is super exciting when you're in an area known for only gold and no trash There's a solid yellow chance this will be another gold [Music] nugget Might take a minute [Music] Yeah [Music] Oh there it is Nice Beautiful little nugget Yeah Let's see if there's anything else in there Okay On the board On the board Number two baby So now that we know that there is another piece in here somewhere we just have to work a bit slower I'm hoping I can wash away the dirt off the bedrock to reveal it but I think we're going to have to use the gold pan for this one So I might have a signal in the pan and there's still signal in here as well Now I decided since I knew where this piece was to come back for it when we leave so I could use the majority of my metal detector battery scoping other areas And I'm glad I [Music] did So I've just come across a really big waterfall down there So I'm not going to go that way I'm going to go up in the bush and hike all the way around and then go down here and see what I can find All right Now now to look for some bedrock Just made it below this big log jam here There's still quite a ways to go I might not actually go all the way down there because it's sort of just sketchy being by yourself Anyway I got to target and I thought it was this uh hot rock or something here but it was not But still here Have a wishing It's screaming so it should be good Or it should Oh my god look at that Oh my god Wow that was quick Yep Sure enough that is a gold nugget It's actually kind of heavy for that size About four or five g Let's see if there's any more All right I'm going to I'm going to put that nugget away and I'm going to clean this out There's a crack over there I see And uh I'll have a detect See what else could be here So far so good We got a big nugget in there Probably five or six g maybe Found that right in here All right maybe 10 minutes later I can't really find much bedrock up here This isn't really a lot of space to work I detected down there I moved some more of this stuff out of the way And I've decided I'm going to go back up to where Jonesy is and just see if I can just stick to one spot and maybe That's a lie I can't stick in one spot Who am I kidding i'm going to go back up Check this out Look at all this gravel that's up here If that log jam were to blow all this gravel would come flying down there potentially exposing a lot of bedrock and a lot of gold I think Jonesy is just up there cuz the water's quite dirty And I'm assuming that's because of his sleuth box Anyway how you doing oh nice Got a piece of gold right there And another one right there So for sure there's a lot of gold here Do you know where else there's gold below the waterfall Oh you found It's a thick one It looks a little bit more silvery Yeah A little bit more white How's that look like in a sleeve oh it's mine now Oh it's blocking everything Yeah Wow Yes sir Yeah I figured I'd just stay up here It's more safe So we're back in the Jonesy hole And there's still a signal in the crack than I found that last piece but Jonesy suggested I try even lower We have another better sounding target So the bottom one is Jonesy's top one's mine I'll show you mine right there And then Jonesies right there It's a little louder It's going to be hard to get because the water's so dirty but I did bring my mask so we'll have a little half snipe Um so this is the piece on the bottom Jones and I both think that maybe there's more down there because that's a sensitive machine I knew it was sensitive but come on We're we're looking for a 10 ozer So I found my piece up top here I'm going to turn on the light You guys can probably see that right in the center of the screen I believe it's smaller than Jonesy's but it's how you use it All right so my piece I lost it somehow I squeezed it with the tweezers and it popped and shot off somewhere But luckily there was another one right near it So at least I got one of the brothers and the other one is somewhere to be found later So I tried looking for the stupid thing but I couldn't quite find it I used the metal detector I used my flashlight my mask my feet but I just couldn't get it So I gave up Then Jonesy found it So I gave him the piece of gold So that piece of gold that I lost got in the pan and there it is right there The same one that was in the water Anyways it's Jonesies Now I'm going to be moving some of this stuff out of the way and see if there's anything on the bedrock All right so I dug all this out As you can see now we have bedrock exposed I went over it with a detector Didn't hear anything but that doesn't mean there's no gold there And even though I've scanned over this like a million times I have another target in here and I just busted it open with this pick tool And now we're going to see if it's gold I'm for sure it's going to be gold I don't see why it would be anything else I don't really see anything yet Even if I was sniping I wouldn't have seen this cuz it's so shallow Oh I wasn't even digging in the right spot Where was it here All right So after 14 days we finally found it Another little picka Just goes to show how how deep cracks or how gold deep crack will go in go deep you know Yeah You know what I'm saying sweet We're looking pretty good Okay so I just moved this big log here and I detected this area and I got a signal and I can already see it I didn't read it I didn't even need to dig it up I'm going to see if Johny can spot it now Let's see Let's see Oh yeah A big log in I know I'm strong You see it yes There's another one Yes Look at that Woo no way It's another heavy bit Probably about 3 g Four g That is awesome So Jonesy saw me kick over this log like the hulk But now Jones is going to move these three big rocks first No I'm going to follow up this crack right here cuz I think this could be good Also a lot of work to move it all but we can work slow There's obviously gold here So in the sun this is what we have so far That is That is freaking awesome Holy Hey I'm kind of Hold on It does look like that bigger piece we have is a different color It's almost more white I don't know if you guys can see that on camera Heck yeah baby Jonesy's now just picking away at that spot I wonder how Reese is making out though Hopefully he's doing doing just as good here Trying to figure out how I'm going to set my phone up here Let me know That's a bad idea My mission here is to move some of these big rocks And it's not going to be easy especially without a crowbar or a winch So the basic of tools And it's sort of funny what you do when you're chasing gold You fail to notice potential risks around you because you're so focused on getting more gold Okay I don't give up easy I'm trying to move this big boulder down in here I just moved this guy I tumbled this guy just a little bit and I all those piles of rocks over there I did that as well So I want to try jumping on this stupid thing and see if I can move it just a little bit because I want to get underneath it and then I want to get underneath that guy Probably not going to happen but we know there's good gold here so it's worth a try This feels stupid All right so it's been about half an hour later I took a walk upstream without my camera End up finding about three or four more little pieces of gold Came back down here swapped the battery and now we have another signal that sounds a little bit louder So I turned on my phone and I hope it's going to be something big I also broke Reese's picker tool Sorry Ree So one of the pieces I found earlier today was right down in there And I went over this didn't hear anything So I swapped the battery because it was dying And those of you who don't know when you swap when you swap a battery it tends to reset itself So anyway relax dude So I'm just going to change the channel cuz for some reason I'm getting some interference right there So it's somewhere in here So it's hard to do this and film It's tiny Whatever it is these sort of spots suck You know there's a piece of gold here and you know it's small but you also don't want to leave it behind I just laid here and carefully scratched away till I eventually uncovered it Oh so Jonesy and I I use this to try to squirt it out and we finally got it moved There it is Just a flat little guy That's funny It's a flat piece that's been folded So I'm going to check this again and see if there's anything else It's almost not even worth the work That was hot So Jonesy and I are calling it a day Uh we're just getting packed up now It's going to get dark here and we have about an hour and a half hike out which is going to take an hour and a half I'm going to have a quick snack before I go up because I have to save a little bit of energy to go and find where where Reese is Anyways here's the gold that we got for the day At least what I got today Three nice nuggets and a bunch of other little nuggets But yeah not bad at all This place is definitely one of my favorite places to go look for gold because there's a lot of it here All right So Jonesy is up ahead of me right now I'm kind of trailing behind as I hike up I'm detecting I have a signal over here And it sounds good It's what you would call a screamer So not getting my hopes up but there has been plus 4 oz nuggets found here Oh you hear that hey I was trying to do this without you seeing but maybe you're good luck It's a bedrock right yeah Yeah My fingertips are all burnt Tinder Tender Oh Oh there it is Got it on camera Found it Yeah You sure yeah It's got to be bigger than that man That's crazy Anyways yeah that's how sensive this machine is Cool Our what 10th piece Nice All right I'll keep detecting on the way out but eventually we have to go home We eventually made it out of the bush found Reese and headed home Okay we are back at the house and this is the gold that Reese found today I actually already bought it from him And this is the gold that I found today That is That is pretty good So this is our biggest bit And just like I thought it's just a different color It's a little bit more white So I'm thinking there's a little bit more silver in there Still nice piece Okay let's weigh our take I'll start with this guy I'm going to say g maybe just over a gram Ooh 2.38 g Second biggest piece Uh 3.28 g 3.6 6 which means this kind of compare the size 5 5.1 g 7.23 23 22 2 1 just over 7 g That is awesome That's our biggest nugget of this New Zealand trip so far Hopefully we'll be able to beat it And for the rest let's just put it on the scale I have Race in here right now but he's outside doing [Music] chores All right so 1.88 bus Do we have over a/4 ounce we about kind of do Yeah 15.03 g So almost half an ounce Well it is kind of It is half an ounce So this gold combined with what we found this trip so far doesn't look bad That is a nice pile of candy Now I'm going to keep the gold that I just bought from Reese separate because because I want to Okay so now I'm going to go have a shower I'm going to get changed We're going to go grocery shopping and get our stuff together Then we're going to pack up and tomorrow morning we're going to go head back to the hills for another few days to look for more candy See you in 2 seconds It's my birthday today so I'm celebrating it all by myself I really take a lot of things for granted And I just want to say I'm very grateful for you guys watching this channel and my my lovely fiance and my mom My mom Casey has been supportive since day one Never let me go All right let's go find a birthday nugget So I came back to where I found the fossil and I'm I'm looking for it because I don't remember exactly where it was but in the process I'm doing some sniping and found another piece of gold So what you're going to notice here is a lot of iron stone Iron stone is basically what it sounds like It's a stone full of iron and even magnetite which are really heavy I kind of knew gold would be here because of how much iron stone is here Anytime you're finding heavy rocks like iron stone along a goldbearing river chances are you're going to find some heavy gold with it too I found a cute little nugget I like the red iron stones Now tell me that's not a good sign that there's iron stone around That's a big one So I'm continuing along this crack and I'm continuing to find more and more iron stone And finally our biggest piece of the day [Music] Yay a nice piece of gold mate [Music] [Applause] here Probably for the first time ever I have the camera sitting still so I can better show you the crevice I'm working Again I don't really have the best tools with me but you at least get a better idea of the crevices to look for As long as there's gravel packed in them there's a good chance there's gold at the bottom Especially with the amount of iron stone around All right I'm not sure if you're going to be able to see this or not but I just found three nuggets And it's in a tight spot so it's going to be hard to [Music] film So I don't know if you can see it right there Oh oops Right there There's three pieces that I saw but this is just one of them I was definitely having some trouble trying to work this crevice here but I'm just trying to show you guys what the gold looks like in here Okay now this is a better shot I eventually sucked them up which was super exciting I just started sniping where I've been laying the whole time Found another nugget I'm going to call this spot the iron stone pile [Music] All right I cleaned out the spot as much as I could So let's find a new spot There's a lot of iron stone here [Music] I just found two little nuggets at the bottom of this really deep zone I'll be able to show you for a second but I can't film sucking it up because it's just too hard [Applause] I don't know if you can see that I managed to get those other pieces but found another crevice and found more gold So far the birthday is paying off I just moved this boulder out of the way And I found some hard pack underneath it Let's dig through it and see what's there [Music] Now that yellow rock really got me [Music] I shouldn't have turned the camera off Just found a nice piece Digging through that hard pack I see a nice nugget starting to show Oh yeah Nice It always like so much Oops They always look so much bigger underwater I thought that was 5 g or something [Music] So now that we know there's a hiding spot along this edge we want to bust that open to make sure there's nothing else hiding inside And there wasn't So I moved on and found some of this fractured bedrock which had a little bit of gold on it But after working through all this there was nothing [Music] else And just like that I was done for the day Well done at the river but I still wanted to head out and look for some eels So I marched on out of there and made my way to the ATV So I made it back to where I stashed the ATV Well it's not really stashed It's just kind of where I park it Super helpful having something like this rather than walking a million miles So that saves us time and we end up finding more gold because of it Now I'm taking a bit of a risk making this adventure into one video because if it doesn't do well then I've lost potentially four or five opportunities of a video doing well because it's just in one video rather than you know more than one If you could please let me know in the comments below what you would rather see the regular adventures that I normally do which are 15 20 minutes long or these longer adventures which are clearly over an hour long I personally like the longer videos which is funner for me to make Yeah let me know what you think because I want to make you guys happy So I'm going to get changed get on the ATV ride back to base camp I'll dump out the gold and show you what we found for today And then when we go back to Reese's house we're going to go out and go look for some eels And then when that's done I'll dump out everything and show you what we found for the entire adventure Oh yeah Let me put this in the sun Not bad at all I really really like this river because of how chunky the gold is Unfortunately I didn't find anything too big But I did come out with this little nugget right here Also this guy and a few other little chunky monkeys as well What I'm going to do is dry this all up and then we're going to weigh it And then when we're done weighing it I'm going to pack up and head out with Jonesy He'll be here any minute and we're going to go do some eing And when that's done I'll go back to Reese's house We'll weigh up everything and call it a day We call it an adventure because that'll be the end of the video Check out this iron stone I found today Wow that thing is dense and really heavy That's probably about I don't know 15 lb No probably 10 lb So I couldn't find the other fossil that I set out to find I'm sure I'll find it eventually But in the meantime I did pick up this guy I don't know what it is probably a a mammoth And then I also got this fossil I saw that kind of near where the other fossils were You should eat it Okay gold is dry I'm sitting in Reese's truck because it's a little bit windy and I'm avoiding the sand flies So let's see if I can do this I'm going to guess four maybe just over 4 g 6.4 g So that's around $1,000 in kiwi dollars You could definitely sell it for more if you wanted to because of those nuggets So I'm happy You stupid sandfly Okay I'm going to pack up and get out of here See you in a couple seconds So I actually went out with the kayak to try to spot a 30foot eel on one of the days I was supposed to be resting Something keeps farting Can't figure out what it is I obviously had no luck So I'm hoping tonight I learn the ways of the eels All right new location I am on my way to do some eeling And I have no idea what to expect I know there's eels involved I know there's water involved We'll figure it out So I guess what we're doing is we're just looking for an area where the eels like to hang out Usually they're around big rocks and logs and all that stuff but I don't see any yet Ow I can smell them So is this the bait hey what is it cat food actually smells pretty good You're going to catch a 10ft eel right i'm going to catch a 15t eel I doubt it but we'll see if I can catch like a minnow or something small So I let Jonesy take the lead on this one and show us how it's done So the idea is you put the bait in the water and then the eels smell it right yeah Did you want to take it over i can take it over cuz you want this As you can see downstream is that way And the smell of the cat food goes towards the 15 ft eels I have to admit this is actually a real nice break from looking for gold You got the beautiful sunset It's not hot It's not cold Doing something just a little bit different Oh it's not a phone It's a stick So there's a chance it might take at least an hour for these eels to wake up You know their names i'm actually kind of excited I'm lowkey expecting this to be a prank and I'm just doing this for no reason So now we wait We have the bag sitting on a log sitting under a rock Hopefully the eels will be here soon I think I heard one Okay it's starting to get really dark now It's been 1 minute later Starting to feel the pressure So you're tying a knot Just tie a bow A beautiful bow Come on A beautiful bow will attract the the monster fish We have spotted our first eel I think it's a 60footer Holy That's big enough Jump onto it Jump onto it That's big enough for you to hold Leave onto it Yeah I'm going to stay still I want to try catching it Right Jones is just giving it another shake upstream to lure lure the eels from down here somewhere Look at all these bugs They're everywhere I don't know why they're called bugs They should be called air bugs I'm ready to catch the 15T meal What if I caught a minnow would you still be impressed What what I'm doing here is firmly holding the fishing line and waiting for one of these fish to bite my cat food The chew nibbling away with the cat food You're not biting my hook yet though Bite my hook You also have to stay very quiet It's stuck on the ground It could be stuck We might have Oh that's my flashlight Oh you've hooked it up to the log Now I caught a log I dropped my flashlight and it went in the water and I scared both of them But that's okay It's slowly going off Should I chase it i caught the log so that doesn't count But only a few minutes later I finally caught the thing with the thing So we have caught our eel Pull it onto the Yeah Bring it on to land Bring it on to land Yay Bring it Keep bringing it on to land So now that we caught our eel it was time to actually I don't even know Oh that's pretty good size I think I wanted to eat one but I kind of changed my mind now [Music] I just wanted to breathe at least Oh they they can travel on water on land and stuff So I ended up letting her go and calling it a night I think next time I'll spend more time and try to catch something much bigger Okay we're back at Reese's house and it's time to show you some stuff Now all the gold I found for this trip is in here and we don't have a gold pen so I'm just going to have to dump this in the lid to weigh it But before we do that some showand tell So this is a piece of iron stone Now it is my favorite piece One of my favorite pieces because it looks like an asteroid It's obviously tumbled and it's been around a long time And what's interesting is this is exactly the same kind of rock Now I found this in a pothole So it's obviously been spinning around and tumbling for a very long time to get that shape Both the same kind of rock both different characters and both are my favorite Now this is a little fossil I was able to take back It's a little shell I don't know how well you can see that but I think it's cute And I'll probably just hide that around Reese's house Now this rock was actually closed like this And then when I broke it open I noticed a whole bunch of fossils in here They're all shells There might be like a fish or something I saw earlier The other side obviously the imprints to those fossils I'll wet these up and see if we can actually see that a little better Actually made it worse But anyways there's some fossils Now for the candy we're going to turn this sucker on Put on the lid I'm going to guess uh I don't know 25 g 25 g 2906 So just under an ounce or a troy ounce which is 31 g which I believe is around 4,700 kiwi dollars I'm not really sure what that would be Canadian or American but kiwi is more money so I just say kiwi All right let's dump this on the counter Have another closer look at this Obviously our two big nuggets Very beautiful Now I don't know if I can show this right but yeah Right there both of these pieces of gold came from the same area and are two different colors One's a bit more silver one's a bit more yellow Interma testing We got a few other nice little pieces in there including this n that nugget and this one which is smooth on one side and really coarse on the other Very cool So that is it for this adventure If you enjoyed the longer form kind of videos leave a comment down below and let me know if you enjoyed this one or you would prefer the older shorter videos Either way I want to hear your opinion So it's time for me to pack up fly all the way back to Canada and start our summer there because summer here is just about to end So big shout out to Reese's Pieces for allowing me to use his house and Darren for allowing me to use his gold claim to find good candy Thanks for watching See you later