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Join the half-hour club.... an ongoing problem that we dowsers have is that we want to practice our dowsing but it is hard to carve out the time. So out of the Glastonbury meet up, the half-hour club was born. Membership is free - with each person doing their best to dowse for just half an hour a week. To encourage each other we'll post our reports, findings, mistakes - anything at all we find out. Because reading about what others have dowsed in half an hour or less might be just the encouragement it takes to find the time to dowse.
16th/17th July - Peter Taylor shares his expertise with you in North Wales More... Can you guess what this is? More
Dowsing a lawn for underground water
'
 There
seems to be a stream running roughly West - East across the top of the
lawn. In one part it is about 8 feet wide. Due to vegetation I couldn't
really dowse for the far bank. I've indicated 'upstream'. I used a nylon
v-rod for most of the work as it was quite windy and following on from
previous posts I thought I'd try this tool. It was very effective & the
wind seemed to make little difference to reactions. I found that the rod
flipped up towards me when I walked up stream and down towards my legs
when i walked down stream. I've never had that 'down' reaction before so
that was interesting & physicallly felt different from the 'up'
reaction. The rate of flow was 200- 250 gallons per minute. Mid point of
depth was 200ft with start of depth at 150 - 175 ft down and finishing
at 250- 275 ft down. The shape of the banks is intriguing. There is
definitely a tributary that comes off and I suspect bearing in mind the
shape of the banks that there are more. I've attached a sketch looking
upstream & a photo looking upstream with flags in the lawn.
Dowsing from a Boat
I'm sure that many have already tried
this, but for the first time I dowsed directions of 'things' from a
boat. First for North and then for 2 x divers from our boat.
Plymouth Breakwater Fort
 According
to the boat's compass I found north fairly accurately by starting a 360
degree scan. I then dowsed to find the direction, of where our 2 x SCUBA
divers were. They were diving around the Plymouth Breakwater Fort, just inside the breakwater, but not attached to it. They could have been anywhere around the fort depending on which way they decided to go and how far they got. I could not see surface bubbles to indicate where any divers were plus there were other divers in the area at the same time too, so I still would not have known which divers were where. When they surfaced it was in the area indicated by the dowsing, so I was happy with the result. I did get some strange looks from the other 3 in the boat - one said that he'd tried dowsing and it didn't work for him - pity because he is a farmer and it would be a really useful skill. The skipper thought that I was looking for water - very funny!!!
Dowsing by the Seaside
We were in Cornwall on holiday this
week so I toddled off to the beach several evenings rods & pendulum in
hand. I wanted to dowse for water on the beach to see what I would find
especially as there were 2 streams running onto the beach. One of them
sank into the sand within feet, the other had some above ground flow
right down into the sea (which was a long way away when the tide was
out). I was curious how the sandy beach affected flow, banks, depth
etc. Unfortunately I was foiled by the weather. It was so windy both
times that I couldn't get any meaningful results. In hindsight maybe a
forked rod might have given some results. Anyway, it got me wondering
what tools would be good to use in windy conditions. Any ideas.....
The original forked hazel twig and the plastic version now made are pretty wind resistant I think - does anyone else have any ideas? Let me know and I'll post them up Dowsing around a pond
'I dowsed the area where my
pond used to be. It was put in well before I got here and I recently had
it taken out and turfed.
I could not BELIEVE the results
I've attached a sketch of what I
found. Basically a vertical column of water coming up that is about 5
feet across with 4 channels coming off it. There's an astonishing 2700 -
2800 gallons of water coming out of it per minute. The shape is very
dynamic too. I'm not sure of the depth but some of the water is about 71
feet down.
Intriguingly, there's another body of
water next to it that extends under the fence where my neighbour has
also put his pond!!
I can't get over the scale of what
I've found...
I also discovered that when I try to
establish direction of flow, the rod will point to the direction of the
source. (I checked this using the garden hose!)
Also interesting that this is where
people put their ponds...'
Dowsing a stream I've been dowsing reaction lines on one side of a stream. Not going overboard here - I did it in two five minute bursts at different times of the day to see how the reaction lines moved. I dowsed once in the evening and marked where the reaction lines were with bits of old tin can (all I could find that was handy). I returned the following morning and the reaction lines had moved. The inner one just a little - the outer one more than a foot. I'm planning to repeat the experiment with proper BSD flags - different colours for different times of the day - then I'll post a photo. (reaction lines are lines that you can dowse either side of the stream - there are three either side, and often it is hard to tell if you've found a reaction line or water. The way to be absolutely sure I'm told is to put flags on all the lines then leave it for a few hours - when you return and dowse again - the ones that have moved are reaction lines - the one in the exact same place are the water.) dowsing on an above ground stream made it a lot easier to see what was going on. If you'd like to be kept up-to-date with the half-hour club - Please email 'subscribe' to half@dowsingcircle.co.uk
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