Beach Hunting Terms...

[kanaka2]

Hello all you Beach Hunters...

I'm looking for explanations of some certain ocean beach terms that I read about often. Pictures would be really cool too.

Towel-Line - Where is this and is it a constant or every changing location?

High Tide Line - The highest line of seaweed on the beach?

Lower Beach - figure this is the wet sand just out of the water(?)

Upper Beach - figure this is the upper sand(?)

Low Spots - during low tide I'm thinking indents in the wet sand(?)

Some of these are probably sell explanatory but was interested to get some seasoned hunters definitions on these.

Thank you for any input.

Jason

 

[KinTN]

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[EL Pulltabio]

Hope this helps. This is a picture of what I call a "runnel" or "cut".
The receding tide has bypassed this "cut" but it slowly continues to drain.
These appear and disappear in different places as the tides play with the wet sand.
If I were detecting this "cut", here's how I'd do it.
Find where the wet sand changes color or where the "cut" starts. Then I go slowly
back and forth in that "cut" facing the ocean then back to the ocean....like it was a lawn to be mowed.
It's only a few yards wide...but remind yourself you're looking for that one treasure. Oh, yes, I slosh through
the water too. My Sovereign handles the wet sand and the shallow water with ease.
The other thing you need to know to beach hunt is this.....show up on the beach about 1 to 3 hours after high tide.
I always read the tide chart before I go out so I can detect in the shallow water (knee deep) at the point when the tide turns.
Look for a little man who arrives with an inflated paper bag and pops it....this announces the point where the tide has turned....kidding.
Tonight, I'll be on the beach at 23:00 because of a -1.6 tide. This is an incredibly low tide. I'll be detecting on wet sand
that rarely ever catches a breath of air. It reaches the maximum ebb at about 2AM.
The last time I detected a minus tide was just last month (-1.7) and it a cushion diamond cut 18K white diamond ring easily worth
more than $10,000.

 

[mudpuppy]

Beach hunting sure teaches a guy fast about people...how they think, who they are, how rich they are etc... and what your possibilities of finding something great MIGHT be...
even something simple like cigarette butts and beer caps tell a lot about the person who was at this spot...even tabs...Men dont generally tear off pulltabs...they have too much respect for the engineering design that went into producing such a marvel to tear it off and toss it....kids and women do this all the time though...I dont know why, but kids and women remain a mystery to me...anyway...generally where theres kids and women, your targets could be small gold or silver jewelry, toys, gum wrappers, juice boxes and maybe some clad...you go downstream (down wind) from the main beach in the high sand where its relatively private and dark at night and hit a foil condom wrapper, buddy, that when you better focus up and work that area good! Somebody, generally two somebodies, had to have their pants off to employ such a device, distracted, possibly drunk,at night, and thats when things of supreme value could get lost...
Downstream or downwind you ask? most humans dont like to walk with the prevailing wind in their face, so they hit the bottom of the stairs and head downwind...they just arnt smart enough to think about it when they have to walk back up out of there...
We are hunting specific People and their travel patterns, so all info on the beach is giving you clues along the way...
Mud

 

[Rocknut88]

Im assuming by cut your talking about the section in the picture with the small amount of water... i live in maryland and havent had the opportunity to hunt ocean city yet but i hope to do so sometime this summer. Any info is great.

 

[EL Pulltabio]

Im assuming by cut your talking about the section in the picture with the small amount of water... i live in maryland and havent had the opportunity to hunt ocean city yet but i hope to do so sometime this summer. Any info is great.

Send me an email and I'll send that picture back with markings on it
to show you what I mean. My email address is in my profile.
Hope you hunt the beach with anything Minelab.