Probably their father or what, an older one approached me, 'Ini dapat cari diamond kah?' (This thing can diamonds?) honestly I replied, 'well if it has metal on it'. He still looked surprised as though I might find tons of treasures.
Not really though, what I got were plenty of nails and junks. Furthermore i was adjusting to the sound and the tuning of the metal detector on salty mineralised ground which could make it go haywire with sounds.
Nevertheless I tuned down the sensitivity level a bit and got it to balanced right with the ground.
So this is what I found.
The rounded one at the bottom what I thought was just a bottle cap turns out to be a shell casing from World War 2 era made of high grade brass. I did a bit of research and found out that the Japanese landed near Santubong, but there was no specific account where. I also learned that a small Punjabi regiment defended the shore and they were equipped with a 16-inch gun light artillery (probably a BL 5.5 inch Medium Gun) which was supplied by the British. That shell casing really fits the description because it probably came from medium sized artillery shell. So now I know where the fighting took place.The two big nails came from shipwreck.
Oh ya the swell came in late to wash the shore off most of the sand and exposed what was buried underneath. This photo was taken on our last day at the beach. Huhhhhh....
