I live about 1.5 hr. north of Big Sur, and have hunted down there before. All the beach around here have sort of s*cked this year, on the wet. No good erosion from the right storms coinciding with the right tides, for the most part. A few little late season teasers on a "certain" beach the last few weeks, but all-in-all, not very good beach erosion season. And since I hate dry sand hunting, it means not much beach action at all.
I notice in your video you say you hunted around your campground. Were you in the main state Big Sur campground, or one of the private other ones operated in the vicinity? A story to make you sick:
In 1976, a fellow I know from this area, researched and found the original site of the Big Sur campgrounds. It wasn't till the 1940s or '50s, that it got so heavily trafficked, that they enlarged and expanded into what is now "Big Sur". But at one time, the campgrounds were only in a specific area, which is ... today..... just an ancillary overflow side area of the over-all Big Sur. Well I guess in 1976, when this guy was the first to ever detect it. Because it was absolutely riddled with coins, as fast as he could dig (even with primitive all-metal TR technology). He said that between each set of two-twin trees, where decades of boyscouts had strung ropes, to make for their tent-supports between 2 trees, that it was a gold mine between each one. And humorously, the coins would be in rectangular patterns between each set of trees, because of generations of each new weekend's campers coming and "sweeping aside" the leaves and twigs, to make for a flat surface in the same re-used and re-used tent square pads. What that did was, to push each weekend's coins to the side in the duff and mulch, so that ....... eventually .... it became a veritable wall of coins. Wheaties and silver were coming out in "clumps", as he recalls. Between him and one other hunter, they eventually pulled out nearly 400 silver coins. Mostly mercs, washingtons, walkers, etc.... Because Hwy 1 didn't go all the way through till the mid 1930s. So it didn't see heavy use till the '30s and onwards.
Even now, I sometimes still go there and eak out a few more, but now you have to contend with all the clad and foil, from 35 yrs. of new junk added
On the "new" side of Big Sur, a lot of silver came out of there too, back in the late 1970s and early 1980s. But most people hunting it were under the assumption that it all dated to as early as the 1930s, when in fact, the main areas only dated to the later '40s or '50s. Still old enough for silver, so a lot came out of everywhere, back then.
