Treasure Hunting
Adventure seekers wanted! There really is gold in them thar hills! Try your hand at treasure hunting. Join us at the Metal Detecting Arena and learn how to search for gold and other buried treasures. Or take a step back in time and pan for gold at the Prospector’s Challenge where every participant will walk away a seasoned 49er! Searching for treasure or Geocaching for caches, use our GPS or bring your own and try our Geocaching Challenge for a chance to WIN!
Metal Detecting Adventure
Try our metal detectors!
At Treasureventure it's about learning! Discover an incredible past time for young and old alike – discover metal detecting! Long gone are the clichés of bermuda shorts and bad hats... todays metal detectors are technologically advanced precision machines. There are remnants of our past all around us from trash to treasure it's all waiting to be rediscovered! Wether it's a big penny, a silver dollar, a colonial shoe buckle, a 19th century shell casing or a diamond studded gold ring... metal detecting can take you on a journey of discovery you never imagined!
Enjoy displays and collections of discoveries made over the years by club members. Try your hand at swinging a coil in our Metal Detecting Arena. Anyone can do it – young or old. A portion of the arena is seeded with common coins where "the pros" will introduce you to various machines and how they work their magic. It's easy when you get the hang of it, careful... metal detecting can be highly addictive!
And now for the challenge... go on a REAL Treasure Hunt! 6 Adult Hunts and 2 Kid's Hunts will take place throughout the day. Our Metal Detecting Arena will be "seeded" with Authentic Roman Coins, Victorian Silver and clad coins! For the kids we have awesome pirate coins and special prize tokens. Swing those coils and you keep what you find! Everybody is a winner! A special prize token will also be introduced into each hunt... you never know what you'll discover! Participation is limited to the number of detectors available. Currently we will have between 20 and 25 detectors per hunt so sign up upon arrival before all the slots are filled! Admission does not guarantee participation in the hunts.
The Metal Detecting Arena will be seeded with at least $1,000 worth of coins and tokens over the course of the two day adventure!
Duration of Hunts: 15 minutes
Kid's Hunt (up to 12 yrs)
Fee: $4
Treasures: Keep what you find in clad coins and one special prize token planted in every hunt.
Adult Hunts (13 yrs +)
Fee: $10
Treasures: Authentic Roman coins, Victorian silver coins, Clad coins and One special prize token in every hunt!
Let's put it in perspective... in a hunt you have 15 minutes to swing a detector with occasional assistance if you need it... you KEEP WHAT YOU FIND! A single Roman coin is valued between $2 and $4; A Canadian Silver Dollar pre 1965 starts at $11 ea; Awesome reproduction Pirate coins retail at $2 ea... There's lots of clad coins for the thrill of it and plenty of silver, there's also an array of interesting tokens, jewelry and relics.... you WILL know what it's like to feel the thrill of the hunt! Talking to club members, trying out the machines and enjoying the display tables is free!
Take the Geocaching Challenge
Learn the treasure hunting phenomenon that is literally sweeping the world!
N43º 18.1045', W080º 7.7483'
Use our Global Positioning System (GPS) to learn how to Geocache, or bring your own GPS for an advanced challenge and the opportunity to win some incredible prizes.
Geocaching is an outdoor activity in which the participants use a GPS receiver to go treasure hunting anywhere in the world. A typical "treasure" or cache is a small waterproof container containing a logbook where you can record in your successful discovery. More often than not there are websites where you can announce your success to the world. The largest of these sites is www.geocaching.com. You won't believe what you may have been missing! Geocaches are currently placed in over 100 countries around the world and on all seven continents, including Antarctica, there's probably one in your neighbourhood. Checkout what Alain has to say. As of June 6, 2010, there are over 1,092,192 active geocaches around the world.
FREE with Admission!
Your Challenge will start with a 30 minute lesson from the experts, we provide the units! We'll teach you how to read the coordinates and follow the directions on your way to discovery! After your lesson you can choose to participate in our geocache hunt. 12 caches are stashed throughout the grounds, we'll give you the coordinates and off you go. Particpate in the hunt and we'll enter you in the draw to win a GPS unit and other fantastic prizes!
We have 25 units available for the lesson and the hunt, bring yourself, your friends, your partner or your family, one unit per group and you can all hunt together there will be a maximum of 1 hr to locate your three caches but after the lesson that should be a breeze! A credit card or drivers license is required to register and sign out the GPS unit.
The Prospector's Challenge!
Everyone can experience the rush of being a 49er!
Stake your claim and pan your riches!
Stake your claim with our $20 bags of real paydirt! Your personal claim contains glistening flour gold clawed from the raging waters of the BC Fraser River and gold streaked quartz culled from the deep rock mines of Cobalt Ontario. Look closely my friends, as your claim is also salted with emeralds, amethyst and banded jasper. You're sure to feel the rush of discovery as you first sift your stake for the riches it holds and then pan the black sands for elusive golden flower gold. If your fortune holds you may just be the one to discovery one of our super rich bags...5 diamonds and raw gold nuggets await your discovery!
Kids 12 and under can pan away for just $4 each! every "mini miner" strikes it rich! Have fun panning our pyrite claims, but there's no fools because there's a prize every time!
Kids 12 and under $4
Rich Bags $20 per
