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Heading into the bush you can save on weight & space by switching your headphones out for earphones/earbuds.
(Do becareful of bluetooth wireless, they can reprogram your detector)

Also my detector came with two battery leads, one was a shorter bungy (curly) which I thought would be better, being shorter & maleable. However it snags on bush crazily. So take straight leads if you can.

I ever started taking a spare coil and detector unit after I fell off a bank and went for a swim with my detector pack and all. Good way to wake up first thing in the morning

I think that is a relatively isolated issue based on not RTFM, as long as you fire up bluetooth before plugging in, you'll be fine.
Of greater "concern" is the delay experienced with bluetooth - I use an FM transmitter and it's instantaneous, no lag.
(Plus no reprogramming issues)

MW

If you put your equipment down; PLACE IT NEAR your other items. I nearly left my mattock on a DOC track, after stopping to get some water.
You can get these amazing expandable towels (add pix soon).
They are about the size of an odd fellow minty and when you add about 2 dessert spoons of water they swell like a tampon & you end up with a perforated facecloth about the thickness of a paper towel.
Take a spade - I've 3 deep targets in riverbed that I must go back to investigate.
I'll try to make a small spade head with a screw on short broom handle; for compact travelling size, if I cannot find anything similar.
Recommendations would be great, if you guys have any?
Also found some mosquito repelling dry tabs, they fit into a wristband. Unsure if they'll protect ankles & ward off sandflies (will test when I head back to that dry riverbed).
And I recommend sandals - nothing worse than a stone or mud in your boot.
I'm going into rivers and a full wetsuit works well with sandals. Also great for when crossing rivers & surviving cold rainny days. And let me tell you the streams in Corromadel are quite cold even on a sunny day. Someone else posted some tips with wetsuits in coro rivers; somthing about kneepads or duct tape to reduce wear from rocks - I want to make a complete list of bush tips here, if anyone wants to assist?
Anyone know if a tube of jam & poison comes premixed for screeching possums - or do I have to make my own using & an old toothpaste tube?

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The best bug spray buy a country mile is blue aero guard in a small spray bottle not the aerosol can I have tried all sorts of stuff homemade and bought but after 8 years of tests and field trials lol aero guard is good enough To fend off the worst of them
As for the screeching possum unless u have a poison license that magic tube of shut the f@&$ up ain't gunna happen sorry but a well placed rock will send him running lol it's the kea and weka that drove me nuts can remember haveing the same group of kea come and visit us every mourning at about 3 am for about 7 days in a row lol and weka scrapping under the hut for a dry spot of ground could drive you nuts lol

take a head net to keep the mozzies away at night

make sure you have a decent slash before getting into your hammock.
I remember a friend had a few suds at night then climbed into his hammock for a good sleep and in the night needed to empty his bladder and could not free the zipper in the hammock and ended up spewing in the hammock the forcing the zipper to open thereby damaging it.
I found it funny but at the time he didn't.

Just sayn -have a slash before you crash-